With a few minutes of searching, anyone can find videos online of chatty birds: macaws talk to their keepers, cockatoos sing to the camera, corvids mimic the jarring sounds of construction sites.

The farthest north the waved albatross had been seen was Costa Rica, so what was it doing off the coast of California?

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 ...