I was sitting on my porch enjoying my morning coffee. It's a daily ritual of mine, as it is for many people, I'm sure. The main point of my ritual, of course, is to look and listen for what birds are ...

A group of bird watchers walked the trails at Tamarack Nature Center recently, on the lookout for late migrants as well as birds that will be around all winter. We'd come to this large park in White ...

I did a double-take the other morning when I saw a nuthatch checking out the suet feeder in my yard on the outskirts of Decatur. It was neither a white-breasted nuthatch nor a brown-headed nuthatch — ...

Three juncos and a Red-breasted Nuthatch were in our yard this week, first sign of northern birds moving south for the winter. This is as predicted in the annual winter finch forecast prepared by Ron ...

The presence of this nuthatch is typically announced by its nasal calls. The red-breasted nuthatch has the un­usual habit of smearing resin around the entrance hole to its nest, presumably to deter ...

Sure, an egret or eagle can awe you with flashy star power. Piece of cake to ID, too. But it's the little birds -- even the ones that birders sometimes call LBJ, little brown jobbers -- that provide ...

The 2018-2019 Winter Finch Forecast suggests area backyard birdfeeder hosts may enjoy some unusual species over the next few months. Annually in late fall, a group of field ornithologists in Ontario, ...