But as a warming climate shortens Maine's winters, bird species once rarely seen during the colder months now hang around for ...

Most likely if you read my column, you have some interest in nature, and I bet most like, feed or even seek out birds. If you ...

The blackbirds should be showing up any day now. I’m on the lookout. When the blackbirds are back in town it means spring is coming. Or at least the blackbirds seem to think so. I watch for them every ...

The first week of March came with a roller coaster of emotions.

Spring weather is bringing an influx of migratory birds to Kamloops and the Okanagan, and this week photographers are snapping photographs of three of the earliest arrivals: the mountain bluebird, ...

A large flock of red-winged blackbirds and common grackles arrived that morning ... by simply spending time with a flock of mallards. The plumage of an adult male mallard is absolutely spectacular. An ...

Signs of the coming of spring are appearing everywhere. So far, I’ve seen robins, red-winged blackbirds, killdeers, herring gulls, grackles, great-blue herons, geese, chipmunks, geese and others.

These boldly colored migratory birds spend the colder months in the southern United States and begin returning to Michigan in ...

Male red-winged blackbirds defend their territories fiercely during the breeding season, displaying their vibrant red and yellow shoulder patches to attract mates and deter rivals. Image by Sandra ...

A Ross’s goose has landed in Great Barrington for all to take a gander at. Then, on March 1, I awake to the sound of red-winged blackbirds, twee-ing and twee-ing as they greet the dawn. Yes! Red-wings ...

We rolled down the car window to listen, and were greeted by the glorious cacophony of red-winged blackbirds ... That stimulates their sexual organs, telling the male blackbirds it’s time to get ...

Hummingbirds won't arrive for another couple months, but there are a few steps you can take in the coming weeks to encourage ...