Though it is largely limited to the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, Ron Pittaway’s yearly winter finch forecast is always eagerly anticipated by...

What a wonderful way to get people interested in birds!

This morning a plane taking off from LaGuardia Airport in New York City hit a bird, which caused engine failure.  The plane landed safely...

Here is a nice piece on an NPR blog called “The Toughest Little Bird You’ve Never Heard Of” though I am willing to bet...

There were 1,805 pairs of Kirtland’s Warblers found in Michigan this year, second only to 2009’s 1,813.  The population has stabilized with neither increases...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has taken two dozen critically endangered Millerbirds Acrocephalus familiaris from their home island of Nihoa in the northwestern Hawaii and moved them...

Really?  This is odd and I can’t remember ever having heard of such a thing before.  How can two species interbreed into a new...

Since watching robo-whimbrels took a sudden morbid turn, let’s follow migrating loons! The U.S. Geological Survey Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) is tracking the...