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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peak spring bird migration in Mississippi starts in late April for southern counties and continues into mid-May for central and northern areas. BirdCast provides real-time migration maps and alerts, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The birds left Bavaria on the second Tuesday in August. They took off from an airfield, approximated a few sloppy laps, and then, such are miracles, began to follow a microlight aircraft, as though it ...

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