Alaska's tiny Middleton Island was the subject of a feature story by biologist and nature photographer Brian Guzzetti in our December 2008 issue. It described how the powerful 1964 Alaska earthquake dramatically altered the island's birdlife:...

Location: Estabrook Park , Milwaukee Co. Observation date: 6/27/09, 7:25-10:30 a.m. Weather: 70°F rising to 80°F, sunny, winds calm Number of species: 29 It was pretty quiet in the park this morning. No Osprey circled high overhead. No Peregrine Falcon...

I gotta admit it: I just love the 2009-10 Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, better known as the Duck Stamp. It goes on sale this Friday, June 26. You can see the stamp at right, on the home page of the Federal Duck Stamp Program , and really...

Location: Estabrook Park , Milwaukee Co. Observation date: 6/20/09, 7:30-11 am Weather: 73°F rising to 82°F, clear, wind W @ 10 mph, beautiful morning after a night of heavy rain Number of species: 40 Considering how many times I've walked through...

Two adult Whooping Cranes walk toward their brown-feathered chick, which is visible in a small clearing in the vegetation at left. Photo by Richard Urbanek, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Less than a week after a pair of endangered Whooping Cranes...

Our August 2009 issue, featuring photographer Bill Leaman's lovely image of a Baltimore Oriole on the cover, is already in the mail, and subscribers can read it online today. Subscribe to Birder's World . Register for FREE with BirdersWorld...

It was announced yesterday that the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission has approved more than $6.5 million in federal funding to conserve nearly 6,500 acres of wetlands and associated habitats in the Midwest. The funds are part of $30.4 million in...

What looks like an important conference on wind power and its effect on birds and other migratory wildlife is now under way here in southeastern Wisconsin. The workshop, entitled "Assessing Risks to Migratory Wildlife from Wind Energy Development...

A pair of Whooping Cranes in Wood County, Wisconsin, are parents after the egg in their nest hatched yesterday. The birds, known as 12-02 and 19-04, had nested north of Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in late April but later abandoned the nest. Their...

Federal transportation officials confirmed in February that US Airways Flight 1549, which splashed into the Hudson River on January 15, had ingested Canada Geese into its engines. Now scientists at the Smithsonian Institution, after examining feather...

Of all the fascinating and inspiring facts about birds that I’ve learned during my tenure as editor of Birder’s World magazine, the most amazing is that so much remains to be learned — and that what we don’t know yet may well hold the key to ensuring...

More Kirtland's Warblers arrived last week at the site in Adams County, Wisconsin, where they nested last year and the year before, bringing this year’s total to 14 -- 8 males, 6 females. Joel A. Trick of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Kim...