Editor's note: This following edition of Nature News is a 2017 column, with 2024 updates, including a reference to our most recent snow storm. An internet outage prevented Susan Pike from writing a ...

A yellow-headed blackbird male. These birds are larger than red-wings and have a natural advantage in squabbles for territory. A red-winged blackbird among the cattails of a marsh. A yellow-headed ...

The blackbirds are back! Spring is coming. Or at least the blackbirds seem to think so.

This peaceful scene is brought to us by a thirsty female Downy Woodpecker. Though not glimpsed at bird baths as frequently as many other backyard birds, woodpeckers do indeed drink water and bathe. As ...

Sign up to receive our email newsletter in your inbox. When Lauren Levinson, now a Weinberg sophomore, was applying to college, she was faced with the task all other ...

If it is March or April in Northeast Tennessee or Southwest Virginia, or Western North Carolina, for that matter, some birds are making their return after a season-long absence. Click on the bell icon ...

Sometimes I like to nerd out on a specific bird. The challenge is to learn something new, and I always do. Today's focus is the red-winged blackbird, a perfectly named harbinger of spring in northern ...

February’s the shortest month, and it is more than halfway over. There are already signs that some birds are ready to embrace the shift in seasons as winter advances, albeit in fits and starts, toward ...

Idaho has a somewhat surprising 15 species of blackbirds (family Icteridae). There are only 106 species in the family on the entire planet, so that’s not too bad. But five species are accidental ...