While the man-made and woman-made gusts and microbursts whip Washington, D.C., into chaos, the only disturbances here are at ...

House martins may find his 17th-century North Yorkshire house sufficiently des res, but to nurture the swifts, barn owls and ...

Spotify Minnesota’s state bird is everywhere: There are loons on license plates and library cards, at lottery counters, and ...

Whether it’s your own backyard, or one of the many parks in Southwest Ohio, there countless birds and wildlife to discover, making the area a great place for winter birding.

Spring usually unfolds slowly, carefully, like the wings of a monarch butterfly as it labors into its new life after escaping its pupa. This year, spring exploded, like the seeds of a ...

The female will produce a clutch of 3 to 4 white eggs and will lay them directly on a layer of fresh wood chips at the bottom of the newly excavated nest cavity. Both birds will take turns incubating ...

John and Judy Nay of St. Joseph witnessed a female pileated woodpecker extract carpenter ants from a dead silver maple, ...

A few feathers scattered on the ground told the drama of the death of a red-bellied woodpecker, likely killed by my resident Cooper’s hawk. Surprisingly, the larger feathers were gone ...

The Downy Woodpecker is a small, compact bird with a straight, chisel-like bill and stiff tail feathers. Its plumage is primarily black and white, with a white back, belly, and outer tail feathers.