The other morning, I had just scattered seed for the quail and other ground-feeding birds and filled their watering dish. Amongst the usual finches, quail, thrashers and chickadees, I noticed a bird ...

From cactus wrens nesting in thorny cholla to roadrunners hunting rattlesnakes, desert birds have evolved extraordinary ways ...

A coastal cactus wren on a live cholla. Frequent wildfires have charred the wren’s habitat in southern California. Scientists have built fake cholla, made of PVC pipe and barbed wire, for the birds to ...

Lately I have been a “peeping Tom” in a nearby eco-reserve, monitoring the breeding behavior of coastal cactus wrens, a bird whose population is in steep decline throughout Southern California. The ...