The next time you notice a mixed flock of various bird species congregating in your backyard, scan the hungry crowd for a stocky, gray-crested bird with a white belly, peach coloring on its flanks ...

The great crested has a darker gray face and breast; olive wash on sides of breast; broad white edge to innermost secondary; all-rufous inner webs of tail feathers; orange-yellow mouth lining ...

New Zealand's "Bird of the Century" is the Australasian crested grebe, as reported by PAP. The Forest and Bird Foundation organizes the annual poll, but this year, for the first time, the system ...