Some weekends are sublime and others mundane. Obviously, we cannot survive one transcendent weekend after another, but this stretch of late winter seems to require...

While green is rather common color in avian plumage, it rarely attains the flamboyance of a parrot’s chartreuse or the emerald of a hummingbird....

During the last week, I received some terrific photos from two readers who had encountered a very distinctive duck at Brazos Bend State Park in...

Feel the damp scent of spring (or the spicy tang of autumn for those of you on the austral side of the Earth) in...

A thoughtful reader just pointed me towards one of the coolest posts I’ve seen in a long time, one which asks and then answers...

The more data about bird migration we gather from professional and citizen science efforts, the more each one of us can learn about the...

We’re in the rough part of winter now, the part that seems to keep spring just a fingertip’s length out of reach. I’m not...

Now that the Great Backyard Bird Count has ended, reports are rolling in from the Rio Grande Valley to Nunavut (thanks, Clare!) I’m wondering...