Found across much of these eastern U.S. during the winter, these tiny birds can be tough to spot—providing a fun challenge ...

This winter I WILL locate a winter wren. That’s my plan, anyway, with one of my goals for the year being to find some of the Boulder County birds that I have never seen. The boreal owl, which lives in ...

When I hike the nearby tiny portion of the North Country Trail, now declared a national park, by the way, the two things I am always sure to carry are my cellphone and binoculars. The phone because it ...

For the last few weeks, just before sunrise — if it is not cold or rainy — I wake to the lovely song of a Carolina wren, sweet, loud and constantly changing from one tune to another with some melodic ...

The northern house wren (Troglodytes aedon) presents remarkable gusto in a small package. The tiny, energetic bird, with its inconspicuous brownish-gray plumage, is the most common of at least nine ...

It was a game of cat and mouse, and this cat was not about to win. I was chasing a cactus wren through a prickly patch of cholla with high hopes of getting a good photo. But the wren just kept darting ...

Dull in appearance but notable for its effervescent song, the house wren is a common summer inhabitant of scrublands and woodland edges throughout much of North America. Variation in plumage and call ...

August isn't the peak month for bird activity in our area. Mornings are noticeably quieter than they were six weeks ago, since most species have completed courtship and nesting. Some nesting species ...

Construction of the planned permanent rocket launching facility at Whaler’s Bay in South Australia may push some species to extinction, including the southern emu-wren. The southern emu-wren is listed ...