Every spring, birders are excited by the return of “our” birds from their wintering grounds, from the southern U.S. to southern South America. One of the most colorful blasts of spring migrants are ...
If you are just starting your garden or orchard, planting flowering fruit trees, dark fruits (like raspberries and ...
A flash of orange-yellow was all it took for me to declare, “Bullock’s oriole!” Sure enough, once we got the binoculars on him, this fine male specimen was easy to see. We have seen six species of ...
It was a sad day for the folks in Baltimore several years ago, when after years of study, the eastern Baltimore oriole and the western Bullock's oriole were combined into one species and then renamed ...
Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Although birds do indeed live in a world “without words,” humans pay careful (sometimes inordinate) attention to them. This month the American ...