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By Tracee M. Herbaugh

I was sitting in solitude earlier this summer in an Adirondack chair in my backyard, when I realized I wasnt as alone as Id thought.

Robbery suspect who eluded capture in a vehicle, on a bike and a sailboat arrested, police say

Humans aren’t the only ones leaving town when city heat becomes unbearable.A study done on 336 cities in China concludes that heat-retaining buildings and paved surfaces are directly related to a loss in bird diversity. These findings from scientists

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I was sitting in solitude earlier this summer in an Adirondack chair in my backyard, when I realized I wasn't as alone as I'd thought. Thanks to the app I'd just downloaded on my phone — the popular and free Merlin Bird ID — I learned just from listening that I was surrounded by more than a dozen species of birds. Where before I had simply heard birdsong, I now realized how rich the variety was in that single moment.

As hummingbirds are storing calories for a migration down south, its time to boost the formula in backyard feeders in New Jersey.

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

Get up close and personal with a birder’s-eye view of the United States, as reflected by our beloved feathered neighbors

Californians enjoy them in the spring and Rocky Mountain residents in the fall as the birds feed on flower nectar and tiny insects in high mountain meadows, backyard flowers and hummingbird feeders. But the Rufous hummingbird, like hundreds of other species, is teetering on the edge.