The piping plovers received much attention in Chicago again, and it’s well deserved. The return of mating plovers is a continuing avian success story in an era in which shrinking habitats and ...

Two small, resident avians become more noticeable during winter months because many of their larger or more conspicuous relatives have abandoned our Texas region for warmer climes. Also, fall migrants ...

Every spring, raptors return to nesting sites across northern Michigan. The smallest of these birds of prey, a falcon called the American kestrel (Falco sparverius), flies through the region’s many ...