I want to sing the praises of an intense kind of birding experience: having a patch. Your “patch,” in birding parlance, is a ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. It feels worth starting this column by acknowledging this was a weird year ...

As winter’s grip loosens across the Northeastern United States, a remarkable transformation takes place across forests, meadows, wetlands, and suburban backyards. The awakening landscape becomes host ...

Recently, I have been getting questions about possible bird damage in early-heading rice fields. Blackbirds, primarily red-winged blackbirds, can damage rice from planting season, seedling stage, and ...

Army Reports Damage After Trump Parade in D.C. This 1-year-old is a TikTok sensation Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria, research shows Kelly Clarkson Postpones ...

A male red-winged blackbird. PAUL DANESE/Contributed. Red-winged blackbirds vexed me when I first started birding. Not the males. They’re easy. They have that sleek all-black plumage, accented by ...

This is the time of year when the song of the Red-winged Blackbird is heard nearly everywhere that has some standing water fringed with cattails and tules growing on the edges. Along the banks of ...

Red-winged blackbirds can fiercely attack humans by making screeching dive-bombing swoops. Dr. Dave Juehring knows. Dave, of Davenport, is just out of the hospital after an attack by a red-winged ...

The male red-winged blackbird defends his territory. Discover nature this week with Missouri's red-winged blackbirds. A stake-out requires being inconspicuous, but not so for red-winged blackbirds.

As I am writing this column on March 22, my weather radio is going off telling me of winter storm warnings for northern Wisconsin. They are calling for 6-8 inches of snow, which will be on top of the ...

Hot pepper bird foods are loved by all the backyard birds but considered undesirable by critters such as squirrels, raccoons, bears, and other mammals. The male Red-Bellied Woodpecker in this video is ...

Seasonal songbirds and other wild birds are trickling into northern Minnesota once again. Now that it’s officially spring, expect many more to follow. Already, I’ve observed a handful of migrants — ...