The smaller, harder-to-find nature preserves often offer some of the best experiences. That's no different with this Indiana ...

The place to go during May is the Black Swamp, out toward Toledo. The land there was once covered by impenetrable swamp in northwest Ohio and northeast Indiana along Lake Erie. The place was so ...

Baltimore orioles, favorite spring migrants for many of us, usually begin to return in late April in the metro area, with most settling in by mid-May. My bird journals show that I tend to hear my ...

“Lots of birds will be aggressive against reflections in mirrors, but I don’t usually hear about woodpeckers,” she said. “They don’t usually peck at their opponents, they kind of chase ...

Photo: Mike Fernandez/Audubon Through a series of beautifully crafted essays, Taylor shares her intimate encounters with the birds that have captured her heart and imagination—from tracking flitting ...

Photo credit: Brian Iadipaolo Birdwatchers, prepare to be spoiled – the diversity here will have you constantly reaching for your identification guide ... hiking trails weave through forests where ...

You can hear woodpeckers digging into trees in search of insects ... them hanging around your tree branches and making their loud, joyful noises. Identification of these birds depends on where in the ...

Real ID compliance is part of a larger act passed by Congress in 2005 to set “minimum security standards” for the distribution of identification materials, including driver’s licenses ...

Birds are gently caught using soft mist nets, then placed in cloth bags and taken to a banding station. There, they’re weighed, measured and identified by age and sex when possible. Each bird gets a ...

They’re very territorial birds and will “defend (its) territory in all seasons,” according to All About Birds. Matthew Fuxjager, a co-director of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ...

Pileated woodpeckers are the inspiration behind the cartoon Woody Woodpecker and sit tall as a crow-sized bird, according to All About Birds. Janelle Favaloro Never miss a story — sign up for ...