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For the past couple weeks I have found myself grumbling during my mornings at the kitchen window.For some reason my yard has become popular with a flock of house sparrows (Passer domesticus) and I am not at all pleased. The house sparrow is an...

Welcome to 2023! Another calendar has been used, another red journal finished and safely tucked away on a shelf and newness has taken over. I place a brand new desk blotter calendar on my office desk, I unwrap a brand new red journal and begin to...

It’s a unique hobby, but an important one. FOX 17 talked with local bird watchers Saturday about how what they do contributes to the ecosystem.

Posing zero threat to ruffed grouse and other endemic wildlife populations, wild turkeys are native Minnesota birds that we can observe, hunt and appreciate.

I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that we are going to have a white Christmas. As I write this column I am looking at the forecast for the storm that most likely dumped a fresh blanket of snow on parts of our region. Those of you at higher...

As Christmas 1900 approached, ornithologist Frank Chapman hatched an idea.  Chapman, like other observers and scientists in the blossoming conser...

This week we're recapping the cover story on the year in wildfires and a story about Harvard University holding hair samples from Native children who...

Colorados two biggest cities are continuing a birding tradition this holiday season — one more than 100 years old across the nation.

A long-held belief in the world of birding is that when a rare bird is reported at a specific location, birders who flock to the...

It was the Sunday after Thanksgiving and, once again, I was up early. The sunrise that morning was one of those spectacular events when the sky actually seemed to be the ceiling of a cave that was being lit from below. Joules Verne would have used...