The morning of my first pheasant hunt in North Dakota, I stared at the male pheasant painted on the side of my coffee cup hoping the artist's rendition was true to life. I tried to memorize the exact ...

The Peterson (Roger Tory) Reference Guide series of bird identification books continues with another fine ID assist, perhaps the most-needed of recent issues. Latest in this series deals with North ...

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Roger Tory Peterson died 12 years ago but a brand new "Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America" has just been published. It is a superb book and Peterson himself would have been pleased. As ...

Long before technology became the primary means of measuring bird populations, a handful of conservation-minded folks set out ...

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A small fallout of warblers appeared in trees near Lutsen, Minn., on the North Shore one day in mid-May. A fallout is a rest and refueling stop for migrants. For birders it's often a chance to see ...

Scientific evidence suggests dinosaurs met their extinction through asteroid impact. Today, if a species goes extinct, chances we as humans had something to do with it. In this century alone, we've ...

In the time since I received my first bird identification book for Christmas last year, my knowledge about Minnesota’s more commonly spotted birds grew steadily before flattening to what felt like a ...

As mornings dawn earlier and light lingers longer at the end of each day, birds are noticeably more active. They’re getting noisier – and nosier – as spring awakens, feasting at feeders and searching ...

Berks and its surrounding counties are blessed with abundant bird populations, ranging from large raptors to varied waterfowl to tiny finches and wrens. Increasingly, people are turning to ...

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