Maybe it's a little early in the year to be listening for singing horned larks, but not by much. Horned larks are the first harbingers of spring, often arriving in the Red River Valley by mid-February ...

Horned larks are utterly beautiful songbirds, but they are not a common sight in American backyards. However, if you're planning a visit to the countryside anytime soon, you've got a high chance of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the past 15 years, birding obsessives have anxiously anticipated the American Birding Association’s annual announcement of its ...

We all have our favorites in the animal kingdom. I can, for example, imagine no more attractive non-human mammal than a flying squirrel. Birders, too, have their favorites. Some prefer colorful birds ...

While the nation celebrated Independence Day, it got me thinking about the uniqueness of this country – its vast size and all of the unusual wildlife that calls America home. One particularly unique ...

Here’s something to tweet about (whether you’re on X or not). A rather “fascinating species” has just been crowned 2026’s “Bird of the Year.” According to the American Birding Association (ABA), the ...

For the past 15 years, birding obsessives have anxiously anticipated the American Birding Association’s annual announcement of its Bird of the Year. The program, which kicked off in 2011 with the ...