Location: Estabrook Park Observation date: 5/23/09 Weather: 55°, wind calm, 88% humidity, light rain Number of species: 52 Location: Estabrook Park Observation date: 5/25/09 Weather: 57°F, wind ENE at 8 mph, partly cloudy Number of species: 47 I wasn't...

What a week. On Monday, I was still in Montana, enjoying the open spaces at the Nature Conservancy’s Matador Ranch . On Tuesday, I was back between my office walls, and in front of this computer, with the August 2009 issue awaiting a final push...

Last week, as Matt reported here , came the great news that male Kirtland's Warblers had returned to the site in Adams County here in Wisconsin where they fledged 10 young last year. Now we've received the even better news that at least four females...

At least five male Kirtland's Warblers have returned to the site in Adams County, in central Wisconsin, where nesting has occurred each of the past two years, according to biologists Joel Trick of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Kim Grveles...

I haven't been here for very long, just half a day, in fact, but I know already that I love it. I'm at the Nature Conservancy's Matador Ranch in northeastern Montana, Big Sky Country. I'm about 180 miles north of Billings. That's far...

Location: Estabrook Park Observation date: 5/9/09, 9:20 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Weather: 48°F, overcast, wind N @ 14 mph. Heavy rain overnight and earlier in morning Number of species: 57 Two sounds greeted me when I woke up yesterday morning: steady rain drumming...

Want to know why I'm happy Birder's World is published in Wisconsin? Because it's full of great places to look for birds and just as full of smart, knowledgeable birders. Many of them have written or contributed to the magazine over the years...

Hello Birder's World fans! Please join us tomorrow and all this week for our first-ever online open house! Come to BirdersWorld.com starting tomorrow at noon CST and enjoy all the features, hotspot articles, columns, and other web content that's...

Location: Estabrook Park Observation date: 5/2/09, 7:05-10:30 a.m. Weather: 46° and clear, wind WSW @ 8 mph Number of species: 41 What a great morning in Estabrook! As soon as I stepped onto the bike path, I heard something I've been waiting for all...

Today a newspaper reporter asked what I thought should or could be done "to try to solve the dangerous situation of birds striking airplanes." Environmentalists are often criticized for advocating a worldview that creates a false division between...