The song of the Savi's Warbler sounds like a strange insect buzzing. These birds live near European lakes, ponds, and rivers, just above the water's surface. During nesting season, males perch on ...

Think “tropical birds” and your mind’s eye most likely sees birds decked out in yellow, red, blue, and green, far more brilliant than our everyday LBJs (little brown jobs). Warblers, more correctly ...

The first time I truly fell in love with a bird was in elementary school. Not yet a strong reader, I started getting into my mother’s books. I was still looking more for pictures than words, however.

The Townsend’s warbler is the loveliest bird in California. It is a species of the Pacific slope, seldom celebrated in the standard catalogs of the continent’s avian beauties. But, those who know this ...

As spring grows closer, a small group of wood warbler species will get a head start on migration, moving into Eastern Iowa from warmer areas to the south. The majority of wood warbler species wait for ...

I recently introduced the many autumn birds that have now returned to our latitudes, the shorebirds, ducks, raptors, sparrows and other songbirds that journey south each fall. There are many of these ...

In Roger Tory Peterson’s “Field Guide to the Birds,” the Prothonotary Warbler is described as “a golden bird of the swamps,” and this warbler is so very beautiful that one cannot help but wistfully ...

Brown-headed cowbirds are obligate brood parasites. That means they lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, leaving all the hard work of incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks to somebody else ...

The Bachman's warbler, a songbird that was last seen in North America nearly 40 years ago, was a distinct species and not a hybrid of its two living sister species, according a new study in which the ...

If you’re looking for a warbler that isn’t just passing through the Chesapeake Bay region on its way to summer breeding grounds way up north, keep a lookout the next few months for the prothonotary ...