Birds are on the move as their annual spring migration begins. Radar tracking allows you to follow along to see what birds are flying overhead as the birds move to their summer feeding grounds. "The ...

Michigan's native birds are arriving for the summer from near and far, but you might not notice as many travel at night. "The movements are massive," said Andrew Farnsworth, a migration ecologist at ...

When we were kids we all learned that birds fly south for winter. Even though it was probably one of the first fascinating ...

National Bird Day 2025 highlights how bird population changes reveal environmental stress and ecosystem health worldwide.

The next few weeks mark the peak of bird migration season, a biannual natural phenomenon when hundreds of millions of birds journey across the continent, primarily at night. Scientists are calling on ...

Each year, as winter approaches, many bird species undertake an exhausting migration, sometimes hundreds or even thousands of miles long. Birds will fly south to find more temperate climates, which is ...

Bird migration is ramping up in Michigan, indicating the changing seasons and giving birders a chance to see hundreds of species before winter. Millions of birds are winging their way south across the ...

Q: When does migration start in our area, and when is it over with? A: That’s a great question: If you know when migrating birds are actively moving, you’ll know to be on the lookout for them. In the ...

On a sweltering late-July afternoon, a mother wood duck and her seven ducklings tucked into a shady spot on the island in Bay View’s Humboldt Park Pond. “This is the first year we’ve had baby wood ...

On a 2009 hike in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona, a group of birders heard an otherworldly ethereal bird song floating, flute-like, through the canyon. The hikers identified the singer ...

A: You certainly could have; our state bird spends its winter along the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to Florida and in the Gulf of Mexico, then returns to the state in April, as ice is leaving ...

Thousands of birds are expected to take to the skies in coming nights, triggering a migration alert in the Chicago area. According to Birdcast, a website dedicated to tracking migrating birds and ...