The changes in the natural world, associated with the advance of spring, are triggered by an increase in average temperatures ...

GRAND FORKS – The bird columnist must make a choice between species that are regular here but ordinarily not abundant, and species that are often abundant but are absent this year. The choice goes to ...

This week, birders around the world lost one beloved feathered creature from their birding life list. Fortunately, no species went extinct. Instead, this change resolved a long-held misunderstanding ...

The longer the winter lasts, the more I appreciate the redpolls. These energetic little birds have been at my feeders frequently this winter. I'm tempted to write "exuberant." Unlike the Postal ...

One of my great and simple pleasures in the waning weeks of winter and the earliest weeks of spring is the morning walk to retrieve the daily newspaper and then take my mixed collie, Denali, for a ...

If you haven't noticed flocks of common redpolls this year, you've either spent too much time in the woods or holed-up by the wood stove with the curtains closed. These small, lively boreal finches ...

Q: For about a month, a woodpecker (looks like red-bellied to me with red head and black-and-white stripes) has been dive-bombing and then pecking loudly on our high living room windows, as well as ...