From their October arrival to their dawn feeding habits, dark-eyed juncos are the dependable “snowbirds” that quietly define ...

Whether I’m writing in my columns or in my different journals, I often refer to a particular group of birds as “the regulars.” These are the species that are dependable visitors to my feeders on ...

Winter is like nighttime for gardens. The bustling activity of spring and summer fades, and a blanket of snow or frost often ...

For a brief period during the pandemic, cities slowed down in ways rarely seen. Streets emptied, food waste declined, and ...

The sunny yellow-hued American goldfinch, which has a black forehead marking, can be seen all over the states. For a real ...

During Covid-19 lockdowns, urban landscapes changed. Humans no longer left behind food waste for the birds to devour, and the ...

Although the Grey Waxbill is quite a sociable bird it does prefer to nest on its own. It is monogamous and pairs for life. The nest is built by both adults in small shrubs and not far from the ground.

Big Garden Birdwatch is the world’s largest garden wildlife survey. Each year, on the last weekend of January, hundreds of ...

But where you live determines more than just whether you see juncos year-round or seasonally; it also determines what type of ...

Because their feet are not adapted to process prey items, shrikes carry large items to thorny vegetation and/or barbed wire fences and promptly impale the prey upon a thorn or barb. This behavior ...

As snow blankets the River Valley, winter birds arrive at feeders and fields, giving backyard watchers a front-row seat to ...

By keeping rodents and small fruit-eating birds out of the orchards, kestrels were found to be an effective means of pest ...