The birds fly in bunches, clouds of bobbing feathers and beaks, flocks shaping and shifting as they glide into the flats.

Since about the age of 8, he had been flipping through field guides and falling in love with large shorebirds. But as a kid growing up in Baltimore, even as he prepared to enter his senior year of ...

From Spokane to Seattle, Bellingham to the Columbia River Gorge, Washington has a bounty of beautiful destinations for ...

Staff writer Abigail Tucker recounts the scene of a beach littered with horseshoe crabs and a sky filled with red knots. Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com ...

Scientists used small solar tags to identify where long-billed curlews migrate, revealing hidden populations of North America’s largest shorebird. Andy Boyce, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and ...

The Delmarva Shorebirds season is just around the corner as the local Baltimore Orioles affiliate prepares to kick off the new season in early April. And as the Shorebirds fanbase prepares for the ...