Ideally, you should position your bird feeder around 10 feet away from trees or shrubs to prevent squirrels from jumping onto ...

A well-beloved backyard bird in our region is the Purple Martin. This large, darkly colored sparrow is a commonly seen ...

Purple martins are gorgeous backyard birds, known for their iridescent feathers and mid-sky acrobatics. As North America’s ...

Tompkins County in New York State is arguably the best birded county in North America. Cornell University, with its Cornell ...

One bird spectacle readily observable in Allegheny County right now comes in the form of 100 purple martins swirling above ...

Providing bird food during spring migration and into the breeding season offers the opportunity for colorful visitors of ...

These birds are so commonplace that they are often taken for granted, but, in fact, the purple martin is a very interesting ...

Birds with “house” built into their names are, not surprisingly, common urban residents. Three such birds found in Minnesota include the house wren, house finch and house sparrow. Here’s a quick bio ...

A catbird was skulking around the forsythia in my backyard this morning, but she was stealthy enough to keep their nest a ...

As I write this column the sun is just coming up over Spread Eagle Mountain in Keene Valley. Astronomically speaking, it is just past summer solstice time, so sunrise comes early. I am bleary still ...

ASTANA – The Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK) presented a new illustrated book for ...

The mother of the man accused of killing his father said shots used to treat her son's mental illness were unaffordable, ...