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 ...

Columnist Shannon Brennan writes that cool, breezy mornings are upon us and we should get outside to see what Mother Nature has to offer.

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

Autumn officially starts on Sunday, so now is a good time to think about reassessing your bird feeding program.

with a long-distance migrant like the rose-breasted grosbeak that spends its winter in Mexico. Hardly a difference there in distance traveled. Let’s compare that same grosbeak to another long ...

Birds fly south for the winter.” It’s an axiom you just know, kind of like, “the sun sets in the west” and “never give the ...

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 ...

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.’ – Harriet Beecher Stowe What happens when an ...

Meanwhile, visitors can also keep their eyes peeled for a colorful array of other passerines, with birds like the scarlet tanager, cedar waxwing and rose-breasted grosbeak all occurring throughout ...

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