Our area lakes are still holding onto unusually solid ice. While ice is thick, it is tediously pulling away from shorelines as spring run-off from our glacially slow spring melt eases into the frozen ...

This week, millions of birds will fly through the night skies above the Chicago area as they travel from their winter homes down South to their summer breeding grounds in Canada and northern states ...

Though songbird migration peaks in May, early spring is a great time to learn and review waterfowl identification. Binoculars and a field guide are the essential tools. To find waterfowl, visit lakes, ...

Spring migration is hitting its peak, with hundreds of millions of birds taking to the skies in a massive seasonal journey toward warmer weather and breeding grounds this May. On May 4 at 1:10 a.m., ...

Dale Gentry speaks in almost reverential terms about a birding experience he had back in 2002 in La Crosse's Hixon Forest. It was the height of spring migration on the Mississippi Flyway, a migration ...

Arctic waterfowl undertake some of the most remarkable long-distance journeys on the planet, linking high-latitude breeding sites with distant wintering grounds. Their migration schedules are tightly ...

Bird migration is synonymous with spring in Wisconsin. It starts with early migrators including waterfowl and continues with species such as red-winged blackbirds that travel perhaps a few hundred ...