High water March 9 at Lake Red Rock overflows the banks of the Des Moines River north of Pleasantville. Pectoral sandpipers feed in the wet grassy areas and exposed mudflats of the lake at lower water ...

Every July, the western sandpiper, a dun-colored, long-beaked bird, leaves the shores of Alaska and migrates south. It may fly as far as the coast of Peru, where it spends several months before making ...

In the conclusion to her three-part series on Alameda shorebirds, Linda Carloni spotlights the three largest sandpipers that ...

The tweety whistles overhead made me look up even though I knew I wouldn’t actually see what was issuing those sounds. Nevertheless, I stopped walking and listened into the star-filled sky until the ...

White's thrush is a small bird from the thrush family whose natural habitat spans the northern forests of Asia, from the ...