Winter arrived early this year, and unlike such occasions in the past decade, she has decided to stay. The temperatures have been consistently below freezing since Thanksgiving, and it has actually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A painting of two ruffed grouse. Bob Barbo is known as a duck hunter. His family cars have never seen the inside of the ga­rage.

Question: I was walking in the woods recently, and I was startled by a bird taking off next to me. Was this a grouse or even a pheasant? Answer: If it was in the woods of central and northern ...

If you didn’t know what you were listening to, you might suspect a larger creature was stirring in the brush. The explosion of feathers and wings and all thing bird both will startle you and, in a ...

Twenty-eight years is a long time to do anything, but that is how long I’ve been writing this column. As long as that might seem, I’ve been paying attention to nature (and specifically birds) for even ...