Times readers were invited to share their drawings of the avian life around them. Here are more of our favorites. By The New York Times All through the summer, as part of our birding project, The ...

Amanda Dyke of Jeddore, N.S., likes to feed birds in the winter, but when she noticed a colourful new bird perched on her deck recently, she didn't know what kind it was. In fact, it's a ...

As the morning fog lifts off the bay, John Muir Laws is sitting in the dirt talking to a seagull. "The oval of your body curves back to your head," he says in a low voice. "Sloping forehead angle. I ...