Stretches of unseasonably warm February weather triggered early behavior among birds. During late February, birders reported not just nesting but incubating bluebirds. Downy woodpeckers chased each ...

Pam and Joe Monahan don’t need TV. They have a nesting pair of tree swallows in a bluebird box in their West Neck backyard. The beautiful birds zoom back and forth, dawn to dusk, feeding their five ...

Spring has come and birds are on the move. Many summer birds are yet to appear; April will be the peak month of arrivals. Some species, however, conduct their travels on a slightly earlier schedule ...

THE SWALLOWS ARE supposed to return in March and April. Birds don’t always do what we expect them to do. Reports of swallow sightings began coming in this winter, and that is more than a little ...

Placement, construction, shape and material are essential nest considerations. Each species meets its own needs with its own style, developed over eons. Many bird species employ feathers in their ...

For Wildlife Recovery Association's Barb Rogers, tree swallows are swift, smart and stunningly beautiful. However, there is a lot more to them. Their irridescent colors of blue and green flash in the ...

The general trend in Marin bird migration is for most of winter’s abundant shorebirds and waterfowl to head north each spring, soon replaced by a variety of mostly insect-eating songbirds from Mexico ...

On agricultural landscapes, pesticides travel through food webs and can negatively affect local wildlife populations. However, few studies have considered the long-term, cumulative effect of multiple ...