GRAND FORKS – The yellow warbler is the most abundant warbler in our area most of the time. Exceptions would be the passage of yellow-rumped warblers in spring and fall, and perhaps some unpredictable ...

The male yellow warbler sports a fitting lemon-yellow body with reddish streaking on the chest. His pleasant thin song follows a musical pattern that sounds like “sweet-sweet-sweet-I’m-so-sweet.” They ...

In the middle of June while shooting photos from a kayak on Parker’s Pond in Cato, wildlife photographer Greg Craybas came across some yellow warblers. “Warblers are the butterflies of birds,” he says ...

Brown-headed cowbirds are obligate brood parasites. That means they lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, leaving all the hard work of incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks to somebody else ...

The yellow-throated warbler lacks the yellowthroat’s black mask and is usually found in the treetops. Look for its plain gray back, white wing bars, black cheeks, and bright yellow chin, throat, and ...

The yellow-rumped warbler is aptly named, but the rump is only one of five spots of yellow on this little bird. The others are at the top of the head, the throat and on either side of the breast.

Learn what a palm warbler looks like, where birders can find these warblers in different seasons, and what foods these warblers prefer to eat. The post How to Identify a Palm Warbler appeared first on ...

May has lived up to one of its names as “the greening month,” beginning as bare woods and ending fully green. Shrubs and small trees began this change, with larger trees being late. Once foliated, the ...

Sitting alone in a small dark blind waiting for a bird is a wonderful time to reflect or think deeply about all of the wonderful and amazing aspects of nature. This happened a couple of days ago when ...

Area songbirds are slowly but steadily molting into their breeding plumage. For some the transformation from winter basic plumage to breeding plumage is striking. I have written about the changes ...

I'm wondering when they will arrive, the little yellow-rumped warblers that dot my trees and shrubs beginning in October. The birds breed in coniferous woodlands ranging from Alaska across Canada to ...