Birding Column: Robins at a Pyracantha Party
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Birder Mathew Tekulsky recalls how American robins and other species visited his California yard for a few weeks in January, when a pyracantha bush produced its ripe berries.
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ORONO - High numbers of woodpeckers and hawks were spotted Saturday by volunteers during the National Audubon Society &#39;s annual Christmas Bird Count in the Orono and Old Town areas, local Audubon officials said Sunday.
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By Dean Baker, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 2--The Portland Audubon Society offered a $500 reward today for information leading to the person who shot and killed a rare sandhill crane at the Shillapoo Wildlife Area near the Columbia River on Wednesday.   A U.S.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 3--DURHAM -- A great egret is back in the wild after a few weeks of R&R courtesy of the Piedmont Wildlife Center.   The bird, which tends to be coastal and not found this far inland, was seen dangling from a tree Jan.
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By Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post Staff Writer  Every spring, thousands of birds, some weighing a pound or less, set off on a journey of herculean proportions. They fly thousands of miles north, to breeding grounds in Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada and to U.S.
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By Tim Johnson  It might have been the primeval forest noises. Or perhaps it was the tree-climbing kangaroos. It also could have been the cassowary, a flightless bird as tall as a grown man.
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By WHITNEY GOULD  A breeze rustles through basswoods and willows. Warblers and finches twitter; a woodpecker taps away. Beyond a fringe of tall grasses, a fish ripples the water.
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By Tony Davis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 11--A new survey confirms what Tucson birdwatchers have long known: that Southern Arizona is a primo place to take a pair of binoculars.
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American robins are the host of choice for mosquitoes that carry West Nile virus, scientists say.
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Birdman of Belair Mathew Tekulsky waxes on the serendipitous moments when birds and timing alight together for memorable photographs.
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By DENNIS MCCANN  They come to the marsh in flocks at this time of year, first the avian flock in down and feathers, then the human flock in down and denim.
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By Scott Barker, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Jun. 11--KINGSTON -- High on the bluff overlooking Watts Bar Lake in  Roane County, a bald eagle perches atop the tip of a dead tree. From a passing  boat, its body seems little more than an inky scratch on a blue sky.
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By Steve Pollick, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Feb. 14--You could tell from the way the birds were reacting at the backyard feeders yesterday morning that something big was on the way.   The feeders at my rural western Sandusky County creekbottom home were gleaned all but clean.
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Watching our state's abundant wildlife, like white-tailed deer and flocks of turkey, is one of the joys of Maine life.  It's a thrill to see such marvelous creatures, especially in the backyard.  But Mainers who spread food for these wild animals unwittingly jeopardize their health.
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Last year&#39;s Christmas Bird Count in Missouri turned up a green heron, rarely seen in the state in the winter. Randy Korotev, one of the organizers, has no idea what birds will delight this year&#39;s counters.
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The ancient family tree where all the world&#39;s birds perch is getting bigger, odder and older, scientists announced Wednesday. In a report in Thursday&#39;s issue of the journal Nature, paleontologists
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By John F. Bonfatti Fifteen years ago, bird-watcher Roberta Vallone had little company as she traipsed through thigh-high weeds and brambles to indulge her pastime at Times Beach, just over the Buffalo River from downtown.