For The Times’s summer birding project, I spoke to the field guide illustrator about how to sketch a bird. Here’s how he draws a black-capped chickadee → Start with a circle, then add an oval. Draw a ...

All eyes and cameras were riveted on the sword-billed hummingbird as Kathy and I led people on a bird tour in Ecuador. The one-of-a-kind hummingbird swooped among flowers and feeders like a ...

Look at a bird’s beak to see what family the bird belongs to and the kind of food it eats. Seeing a bird with a long, needlelike beak would tell us it’s in the hummingbird family that probes flowers ...