I needed to get out of my head, so I went into nature where I could find beauty instead of ugliness, and eventually, by taking classes, I started to nature-journal about the birds in my backyard.

It’s pretty simple. You look out your window at birdfeeders or just your yard and count birds for as little or as long as you want. A joint research and education project sponsored by Cornell ...

The two-volume work “ID Handbook of European Birds” by Nils van Duivendijk was released on Oct. 22. The book comprises 1,056 ...

Feel free to add to this list and adopt different strategies to identify grifters. About the Author Danyal (Dan) Khan currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Muslim American Leadership ...

I bought a house. After spending most of my adult life in New York City, I moved a couple of hours north to the Hudson Valley ...

The author of “Slow Birding,” Joan Strassmann, which I reviewed in an earlier column, takes her job seriously as an ...

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If you want to scare birds away from your property without harming them, our guide can help. We’ll cover some of the common problems caused by pest birds and how you can safely and legally use ...

When Vancouver resident James Lanz and his wife, Kate Ketcham, moved into their Cascade Park home nearly seven years ago, one of the first tasks they wanted to tackle was the landscaping. Grass covere ...

Amy Tan, whose new book The Backyard Bird Chronicles, started as a private nature journal of birds in her garden in Sausalito, came to birding as a response to American politics, specifically, ...

Bird flu has been found in at least one pig at a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the H5N1 virus in swine in the United States, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Wednesday.

The pig was one of five that were found and tested in a backyard farm operation ... virus “out of abundance of caution” after the bird flu was detected among poultry at the farm last week.