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Piping Plover (right), Northern Spotted Owl, Whooping Crane, Red-cockaded Woodpecker, and Maui Parrotbill are among the bird species that will benefit from new federal conservation grants. The grants, announced yesterday by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, include $57.8 million through the Cooperative...

Where do you enjoy watching Bald and Golden Eagles? At Alaska's Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve? In the Upper Mississippi Valley of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, or Illinois? Along the coast of Maine? On Cape Breton Island? At one of hundreds of other hotspots in the United States and Canada? Please...

We have a winner in our first Readers' Favorites Survey ! In our October issue , we asked you to tell us your favorite places in the United States and Canada to see eagles, and boy, did you tell us! Many, many, many thanks. Thank you for taking the time to help us. Thank you for sharing your vast...

Our February 2010 issue, the first of the new year, is now on newsstands. I think you'll like it. Here are six solid reasons why: David Allen Sibley tells how head patterns match up with five feather groups on common backyard birds -- Black-capped Chickadee, Song Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow...

Wow. 181 million. That's how many times the images provided by the webcam pointed at the Bald Eagle nest in Decorah, Iowa , had been viewed as of Friday morning. I know because I was one of the viewers. The nest, in a cottonwood tree on private property in extreme northeast Iowa, has been producing...

The birds sure are hungry in the photos below. Whether in flight, on a beach, or on a stump, when it’s time to eat, it’s time to eat. Enjoy the images! We selected them from our online galleries . Submit your photos to our galleries. See more photos of birds eating. See the contents...

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 June 15, 2011, at 10:12 AM Around the time the American...