NEW YORK —The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has several tips to help ground-nesting birds during the mowing season. While grasses are getting greener and flowers are blooming ...
When most people think of bird nests, they picture a tea-cup-sized structure built of grass and twigs. Many nests, in fact, do resemble grassy cups, but the full range of bird nests embraces ...
Think telling sparrows apart is just not worth the effort? Our tips might change your mind. Identify sparrows by habitat, ...
Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks workers are building a new 1.5-mile-long trail on Gunbarrel Hill – in large part to protect vesper sparrows and other ground-nesting songbirds. The new Vesper ...
Walking along a river trail recently, some birding friends and I stopped to stare in astonishment at an unusual sight, a hummingbird flitting near the base of a big oak. Almost at ground level, she ...