Native to Australia, tiny Bogong moths travel hundreds of miles in an astonishing annual migration by using the starry night ...

A: Yes, it would be highly unlikely for a pair of geese to have this many youngsters. The group you saw was instead a goose ...

Red-winged blackbirds vexed me when I first started birding. Not the males. They’re easy. They have that sleek all-black ...

Cactus Wren, a new spot that the two opened in February, on Ludlow and Rivington Streets, is similarly sui generis, in that ...

The secluded wetlands of the Ausable Marsh offer a short hike for birders, nature lovers and anglers to enjoy.

Spring has sprung, and the copious rains we received this past winter and early spring are showing themselves in the lush ...

In celebration of this new addition to the pantheon of stewardship storytelling, we invited Ellen Wayland-Smith to speak with ...

The tangled stems also make a great habitat for spiders and other insects, which provide food for foraging insect-eating birds, such as wrens and blue tits ... They are normally in small flocks. The ...

Sure enough, under a bush next to the wilderness trail we spotted a crude ground nest with several spotted buffy brown ... birds, such as cavity nesting house wrens, will find locations with small ...

Case in point: Our home in Northbrook is now surrounded by nesting birds. These include a family of robins nesting atop a rain gutter, phoebes (a small species of flycatcher) nesting on a woodshed ...

Wrens aren’t our flashiest birds, but they more than make up for it with their big personalities. Small and brown, they rarely sit still, whether vigorously defending their nests and territories, ...

The wren is one of our smallest birds and features ... time with only short breaks between phrases. The Dunnock is a small brown bird with a short thin beak. It has red or brown eyes, dark streaks ...