What is most important when looking at and watching birds? The easy answer is to carefully look at the entire bird. You will ...

"Brown shades are more common in natural environments than in cities. We suspect that brown birds are at a disadvantage in a rather gray city. The predominant colors of a city and the lack of ...

Neil Steinberg/Sun-Times Share Usually, birds come to me. To my backyard feeder: robins, sparrows, wrens — little brown birds, mostly, with the occasional red cardinal, gray dove or blue warbler ...

Now, the historically southern birds are commonplace. Hitchcock says Carolina wrens, little brown birds with an outsized song, frequently generate midwinter calls from birders misled by out-of ...