Why Do Birds Migrate North in Spring? Flying north might seem daunting, but birds do it for good reasons. Species that journey to the tropics for winter must compete with year-round tropical residents ...

Each year, as winter approaches, many bird species undertake an exhausting migration, sometimes hundreds or even thousands of miles long. Birds will fly south to find more temperate climates, which is ...

When Logan Parker first sees a male, black-throated blue warbler near his Maine home each spring, two things strike him about the tiny bird – its stunning appearance and the thousands of miles it ...

The bird flu that is circulating around the world is suspected of having killing about 200 snow geese in the Lehigh Valley, spreading to a species that is migrating through the region by the thousands ...

Our region acts as a stopover for many birds that travel along the Atlantic Flyway. A new documentary takes a closer look at that migratory path. Flyway of Life will premiere at the SHU Community ...

The birds are on the move. In flocks so think they look like a "storm" cluster on your weather radar, the birds are moving for their annual fall migration. Most of the migration is concentrated in the ...

As surely as one season marches into the next, the natural world follows suit and prepares for the changes ahead. When spring arrives, tree leaves unfurl, shoots emerge from the ground, and migrating ...

The recreational pursuits of birding and wildflowering mostly involve finding and subsequently naming individual birds and wildflowers. As fun as those pursuits genuinely are, identity involves much ...

Ms. Renkl, a contributing Opinion writer, reports from Nashville on flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. Sept. 1 is the beginning of meteorological fall, but in Nashville you ...

Scientists are still trying to understand exactly how a virulent bird flu is spreading through farms in the United States, but one pattern is clear: poultry and cows risk exposure to sick wild birds ...

The skies over Indiana are packed with birds right now. We’ve entered the peak three weeks of fall bird migration, when hundreds of millions of birds move south each night. If you’ve noticed more ...