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When winter temperatures dip to season lows and finches that will breed in the far north dominate our attention at our feeding stations, it can be painful to think too hard about spring. Gardeners find it therapeutic to pore through seed catalogs. Birdwatchers...

One of the best things about birdwatching is getting to visit beautiful places. The amazing scenes below are examples. Visitors to our website submitted them to our People and Places gallery . We hope you enjoy them! Submit your photos to our galleries...

Of the five thrashers pictured below, only Brown breeds east of the Mississippi. The other four -- Long-billed, Sage, Curve-billed, and California -- are old friends who make us feel at home in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and other western states. We...

An Operation Migration ultralight pilot leads Whooping Cranes. Photo by rowrlm The Federal Aviation Administration announced today that it has granted an exemption to Operation Migration that will allow pilots to continue to aid the Whooping Crane migration...

Whooping Crane 6-05 stands in a field in southern Indiana while crane 37-09 forages. The photo was taken December 29, 2011, the day before 6-05 was found dead of a gunshot. Photo by Dan Kaiser Yesterday I wrote about the delay in this year’s...

Black-capped Chickadee is a curious species and can be a lot of fun to watch at your feeders. Take a look at these fabulous photos from our online galleries of the birds eating, landing, and just hanging around. Submit your photos to our galleries...

Operation Migration, the group that has taught young Whooping Cranes a migration route from Wisconsin to Florida for the past 11 years, has voluntarily grounded its current migration in northwest Alabama while it waits for the Federal Aviation Administration...

Warblers, owls, hummingbirds, eagles, mist-netting, new books -- we covered that and lots more on this blog in 2011. Below are the 10 most popular stories of the year. 10. Checklist math: How four Yellow-rumped Warblers equal one Butter-butt Published...

We love to see the eye-popping red of a Northern Cardinal against an all-white snowy backdrop here in southeastern Wisconsin. You too? Readers sent the redbird photos below to our photo galleries . Please send us your shots! Submit your photos to our...

The hardy birds below don’t mind the cold. You may spot one in your backyard this winter, so keep a lookout! If you see one, please take its picture! Then post your photo in our online photo galleries . The snaps below are from the galleries. ...

Back in April I was delighted to announce a new partnership between this magazine and the American Bird Conservancy . In every issue since, ABC's column "Eye on Conservation" has helped us keep you up to date on a wide assortment of birds...

There's no snow near our offices here in southeastern Wisconsin yet, but we know it's on the way! The birds in the photos below found it -- or, rather, it found them! We chose the wintery scenes from our online galleries . Enjoy! Submit your photos...

If chickadees seem friendly and cheerful at regular backyard feeding stations, you should see what happens when you start offering mealworms! The ones in my neighborhood in northern Minnesota tap on my window when the feeder goes dry. Many of them take...

Life imitates art: A painting (at left) by Milo Winter illustrating the Aesop's fable "The Crow and the Pitcher." At right, a New Caledonian Crow brings floating food within reach by dropping stones into a water-filled tube. Illustration...

Our forthcoming February issue reports on the deaths of hundreds of warblers and other birds at a wind-power facility in West Virginia, and it includes an article about researchers who are working to protect Golden Eagles in eastern North America from...

I encourage you to pick up a copy of our February 2012 issue when it appears on newsstands in early January. The issue has a wonderful photo of a Black-capped Chickadee on the cover (taken by Robert McCaw ), and its pages are simply jam-packed with good...

The second Friday in December is a perfect time for Snow Buntings! They can be found in whirling flocks on open beaches, in fields, and on prairies throughout the northern U.S. and parts of western Canada during winter. We hope you like the images below...

Red Knots and Dunlins forage in spring along the shore of Delaware Bay, a critically important stopover site for migrating shorebirds. Photo by Greg Breese, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Ever since Alexander Wilson, the father of ornithology, found...

Dark-eyed Junco is one of our favorite birds. Small, sleek, handsome, and hardy, they can often be found filling up under backyard feeders all winter long. The images below are from our online galleries . Submit your photos to our galleries. Read...

Our December 2011 issue, on newsstands now, has plenty of fascinating, provocative material that's worthy of a letter to the editor. D. Dekker's profile of the majestic Gyrfalcon ( Ultimate Falcon , page 18), for example, includes lists of Christmas...

Majestic, fierce, and white, there is no other bird quite like the Snowy Owl. It's near the top of the list of reasons we look forward to winter! Here's a selection of our favorite photos of Snowies from our online galleries . Submit your photos to...

As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, our thoughts turn to turkeys -- the big, wild kind, not the birds you bring home frozen from the grocery store. Visitors to our website have uploaded many great photos of the noble Wild Turkey to our galleries ...

Every Friday on our blog, we post collections of excellent bird photos chosen from our six online galleries . Below is a list of what we've published so far. We'll update it as more "Friday Photos" are published, so come back often. Enjoy! Birds...

No matter how many times we see Osprey, we can't get enough of them. Below are some of our favorite images from our online photo galleries . We hope you like them! Submit your photos to our galleries. Hot off the presses! See the contents of our...

All swallows have pointed wings and forked tails, and they love insects! Take a look at the great shots of them below from our online galleries . Submit your photos to our galleries. Visit our new photo gallery: People and Places Hot off the...