The spoon-billed sandpiper is beautiful, reddish shorebird from northeast Russia that’s critically endangered and whose population has plummeted in recent years. The little birds have extremely ...

These two North American mystery bird species are thought to have been present at the K-Pg (K-T) extinction of the dinosaurs (includes videos!) Red-necked phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus (formerly, ...

What Does a Solitary Sandpiper Look Like? Look for this brown-and-white sandpiper during migration. The solitary sandpiper is identifiable by its spotted brown back and wings, as well as its white ...

Forget the holiday traffic jams, put away the summer clothes and turn on the central heating – it may still be August, but in the bird world, autumn is officially here. The first sign of the season ...

Loving care from conservation "foster parents" is helping these odd-looking but aptly-named spoon-billed sandpipers keep a wing beat from extinction. There are so few of these Siberian nesting birds ...

I’ve recently moved to Cape Cod and have been faithfully reading your weekly column. While I’ve enjoyed learning about hummingbirds and bluebirds, I would really like to know more about the beach ...

If you’ve made the drive either direction between Frisco and Breckenridge in the last week, you’ve seen scores of people out on the south end of Dillon Reservoir attempting to catch a glimpse of ...

For his 60th birthday on June 16, Joel Sartore celebrated with another milestone: Photographing the 13,000th species in National Geographic’s Photo Ark. He captured photos and video of the critically ...

Cuteness aside, though, sandpipers are pretty confusing, because "sandpiper" is both a species name and the colloquial name for the Scolopacidae family of birds. There are dozens of Scolopacidae ...