Warblers are the highlight of spring migration season for many birders, so we are off to a flying start this year (sorry). A bird never before recorded in Minnesota — Swainson's warbler — made not one ...

If you see groups of people lugging large cameras around our county parks, it's not paparazzi chasing celebrities – it's birders looking for warblers. Warblers are an incredibly diverse group of birds ...

The October bird migration is one of the more interesting and exciting aspects of fall. Some migrations are hard to miss — the noisy arrival of wild geese, the large soaring assemblages (kettles) of ...

Early September follows the last weeks of August by being a time filled with nature happenings. The woods still abound with mushroom species. Roadsides and fields have an abundance of blooming ...

Living in the Northland, we get to experience large amounts of bird migrations twice a year. With the lengthening days and warming temperatures, we can observe the flight north of a vast variety of ...

The evening of May 12, an estimated 1.1 million birds crossed over Monroe County during spring migration. Most migratory birds fly at night, which can make them difficult to see but provides ...

With a population estimated around 60 million birds, the Blackpoll Warbler is one of the most abundant of North America’s 54 species of New World Warblers. And since it breeds away from most human ...

Our ability to link the breeding locations of individual passerines to migration stopover sites and wintering locations is limited. Stable isotopes of hydrogen contained in bird feathers have recently ...

The Kirtland’s warbler is one of North America’s most endangered bird species. Nathan Cooper At .48 ounces, your average Kirtland’s warbler weighs about as much as a handful of tortilla chips (seven, ...

Of the many things I miss about my mom, in the spring it is the great warbler migration that reminds me that she isn’t around to call from the New York suburbs where I was raised to give me updates ...

In many bird species, the males are far brighter and flashier than females, and we typically think that’s because males compete while females choose. Now, a team studying this so-called sexual ...

If you notice some of your bird-watching friends rubbing the back of their necks these days, they are likely suffering from a syndrome unique to birders that is generally referred to as Warbler Neck.