More than 60% of all grassland habitats in North America have been lost, according to the 2019 North American Grassland and Birds Report by the National Audubon Society. Much of it is due to ...

Ms. Renkl, a contributing Opinion writer, reports from Nashville on flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. Of all the nest boxes in our yard, the Carolina chickadees always choose ...

Rock Wren is an apropos name for a bird that lives in sparsely vegetated, arid and rocky canyons. These birds breed on talus slopes, scrublands and dry washes, from desert to alpine in western North ...

A: No one knows for sure what causes baldness in birds. And often in the literature that I read, the condition has not been well studied. Fortunately, in most cases new head feathers grow within a few ...

In 1953, famed naturalist Roger Tory Peterson, who originated the field guide series bearing his name, took his British colleague, James Fisher, on a 30,000-mile tour of North America. They recounted ...

It is only early March, with Old Man Winter still looming large in the rearview mirror. But the birds speak – literally – of spring. Ever-lengthening daylight hours trigger our earliest songbirds to ...

Vocal and plumage variation in the Bewick’s wren is extensive, but all adults have a very long tail, tipped in white and flicked side to side. Eastern populations have disappeared from much of former ...