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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 ...

Their “conk-a-ree” call is a familiar sound in area wet spots and marshes, especially where there are cattails. It’s also a welcome sound in early March, signaling a sign of spring. This bird, of ...

Staking his claim along the tidal marshes of Long Island Sound, it’s the Red-Winged Blackbird — singing loud, flashing those epaulets, and reminding everyone who runs the shoreline.

Cold, cruel and unrelenting, February has come and gone. The skating rink that covered our walkway has finally been chipped away. Persephone, the goddess of spring is waiting in the wings, amusing ...

This is the first time in a couple of years that we have a landscape devoid, or nearly devoid, of snow during the second half of March. The last two springs were slow to arrive, but this year the ...

If you're a predator that eats baby birds -- say, an American Crow -- eavesdropping on the begging calls of nestlings can be an easy way to find your next meal. But do baby birds change their begging ...