The striking rose-breasted grosbeak is a common bird of wooded habitats across much of eastern and midwestern North America. Singing from the canopy of a deciduous forest, even a brightly colored ...

As I sat on the front porch that morning several rose-breasted grosbeaks came in to feed. And a house wren, a small brownish/gray bird, was constantly carrying on, probably looking to mate for the ...

Bird beaks have a variety of shapes and purposes. Here are the most common bird beak types to look for and how they help ...

The handsome black-headed grosbeak is the western counterpart to the East’s rose-breasted grosbeak, and the 2 even occasionally hybridize where they come into contact in the western Great Plains.

The end of summer is here and fall officially starts on Sunday, Sept. 22. As we know, often when a new season begins, we have ...

The Michigan educator’s long-running program, Birding by Ear and Beyond, fits within a growing movement to make the outdoors ...

Humans have a propensity to organize, to put things into boxes. People who try to pigeon-hole nature often do not fare well ...

Trees provide sheIter, spots to rest, and feasts of high-protein insects to migratory birds including warblers, tanagers, tree sparrows, and rose-breasted grosbeaks as well as to birds that stay ...

Rose Ayling-Ellis has fronted a new documentary for the BBC. The actress, who has been deaf since birth, helms a two-part series in which she takes a group of older people and helps them to learn ...

The 2024 International Rose of Tralee Festival delighted and entertained in equal measures - take a look at some highlights from both nights of the live broadcast by clicking on the gallery above.

Let's not make any cheap gags about bagpipes (a wonderfully evocative instrument) but who didn’t look askance at the volume button when San Francisco Rose, the aptly named Maggie Baglin ...