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Follow these tips to ensure that you’re creating a healthy environment for wildlife visitors you attract to your yard.

With all the products available these days, sometimes the jargon and claims can get confusing. Here’s a quick primer.

Follow this advice to attract the most feathered friends to your feeders.

Providing food—for photography or simple enjoyment—can be a thorny issue. For guidance, ask yourself these three questions.

When it's time to eat, research shows there's a pecking order—and the winners aren't always who you'd think.

Turns out there's an orderly process to all of that flitting back and forth.

It's probably one of these eight hungry visitors.

Hint: It's probably a female cardinal.

The differences are subtle, but shape and size can help in a big way.

Size and tail color are two of the biggest clues when deciphering these two backyard regulars.

Some clues to help distinguish between these two often-confused finches.

The six flavors of junco were long considered separate species. Recent science shows that they instead boldly exhibit evolution in real time.

Learn these seven species and you'll never go dateless again.

This is it! We’re here! Spring!

Make sure you're helping, not harming, your feathered visitors with these simple steps.

A few small steps can protect your nectar from bears and insects.

With these 9 steps, you can create an avian winter wonderland and get a jump on spring migration season.

Maintaining a fresh bath is a simple, essential way to keep birds hydrated, clean, and disease-free. Just follow these easy steps.

Birdfeeders and trees help birds, but they also increase the likelihood of deadly window impacts. Here’s how to make your yard truly bird friendly.

The easy buffet draws bears to human habitats. If you live in bear country, experts suggest putting away feeders in seasons the mammals are active.