It was cold and the wind was blowing hard, but there I was with two friends scanning the whitecaps of Rose Valley Lake, hoping for a fallout of waterfowl and vagrant species. Winter birding in these ...

Seeds, fruits, fats, nuts and more create a calorie-dense treat for birds. Here’s how to serve suet for birds. Learn what ...

White-breasted nuthatches, dark-eyed juncos and tufted ... the naked trees and brown fields sure made it look that way. But now that I spend more time in the countryside, I’ve discovered that ...

The Christmas Bird Count ... laments not finding a Brown Creeper. As they wait for the van that will deliver them to the compilation, the counters compare clipboard and eBird checklist. They reach “a ...

Birds that had high count numbers included 291 Wild Turkey, 15 Horned Grebe, two Cooper’s Hawk, 1,021 Herring Gull, 751 American Crow, 563 Black-capped Chickadee, four Brown Creeper ... two ...

Many birds rely on seeds foraged from flowers – goldfinches, sparrows, chickadees, nuthatches, and other small birds are ... Bat abode. Little brown bats, especially, need roosting spaces free of the ...

but they are not the key ingredient in the birds’ survival. What the American goldfinches, white-breasted nuthatches, house finches and the rest cannot live without in these coldest months is a ...

“What has changed in the last two years is that first, it has become way more widespread among birds, but second, we are seeing large-scale infection of mammals,” said Ashish Jha, the dean of the ...

Bird flu seems to be ramping up — the US announced its first human death this week, and the highly contagious virus has spread to all 50 states. With more than 130 million birds and nearly 1,000 ...