BEAVER ISLAND, MI – Beaver Island is a birder’s paradise. There are chickadees and grouse, snow buntings and snowy owls. Plovers and loons on the water, eagles and osprey in the skies. Plus, gulls and ...

"I just flew in from South America, and boy, are my wings tired!" That's what a cliff swallow might say, if cliff swallows could talk. After all, they've just flown some 3,000 miles to Northwest ...

The most common raptor in Eagle County is most likely the osprey. As you drive through the county, you will see their nests on the top of many trees, poles, power poles, and athletic field lights.

It was a great summer for the piping plover, thanks to decades of wide-ranging, multi-agency recovery effort to which Central Michigan University students and faculty have contributed. Across the ...