From Allen H. Benton’s 2004, "Birding Through Life, Wanderings of a Born Birder": “For the next five months, I was on the front lines constantly… As a reconnaissance unit, we spent the day, when we ...

You might imagine that a scientific community that can splice genes, clone life and put machines on the Martian surface would know all about the life of our everyday bird species. You would be wrong.

Eastern bluebirds are not really blue — it's the way light waves interact with their feathers. But they are a part of Michigan's natural heritage and now that it's nesting season, they can be spotted ...

CHRISTIANSBURG — The first try was a disaster. We found three dead Eastern bluebirds near to fledging still in the nest this spring, and the only one to make it out was killed by a predator on the ...

From top left (clockwise), Barred Owl, Carolina Chickadee, Eastern Bluebird, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-bellied Woodpecker and Great Egret all competed to be the city of Fort Worth’s official bird.

An unusual visitor to the Tri-Cities has been drawing crowds to Leslie Groves Park along the Columbia River in Richland. Jane Abel of Richland was first to spot him. Late Wednesday she was taking ...

Way back in 1934 a song called “The Bluebird of Happiness” with lyrics by Edward Heyman hit the airways to popular acclaim. Today, one Chester County woman, Marilyn Michalski of Phoenixville, can lay ...

A pair of nesting eastern bluebirds has raised three broods in our bluebird box since March, and the female just laid another clutch of eggs that will hatch by mid-July. Beginning in February, the ...