High water March 9 at Lake Red Rock overflows the banks of the Des Moines River north of Pleasantville. Pectoral sandpipers feed in the wet grassy areas and exposed mudflats of the lake at lower water ...

Beach nesting bird season is officially over. Gulf Coast Bird Observatory’s avian research team is switching gears and is now monitoring for non-breeding shorebirds along the Upper Texas Coast until ...

Gulf Coast Bird Observatory’s avian research team is monitoring for non-breeding shorebirds along the Upper Texas Coast until the end of March. Our main focus are those species that are classified as ...

The bar-tailed Godwit is a tall, long-billed sandpiper that has in recent years been crowned the champion long-distance ...

Shorebirds are arriving by the multitudes along Texas shorelines and inland wetlands after traveling some 5,000 miles from Arctic breeding grounds. They include such birds as plovers, sandpipers, ...

Warm temperatures, a garden that is producing and lots of flowers in bloom -- this hardly seems like a time that we might observe migration among the local birds. But it is happening now, as it does ...

Alameda, like many places, hosts different bird species during its different seasons. Many of our birds migrate so they can take advantage of the different resources available in different areas. As ...

SOUTH NEWFANE Halibut Point on Cape Ann in Massachusetts is one of many old coastal quarries. A trail leads past the flooded quarry pit to the built up promontory. Projecting into the ocean, it is a ...