Leslie O’Rourke is a local nature photographer known as the Swan Whisperer of Belleville after a July 2023 profile by ...

From the adorable but deadly pine marten to the massive sperm whale, get to know some of the amazing animals that call ...

Q:I was hearing cardinals starting to sing their springtime song in January. Why do they start so early, since they don’t begin nesting until late spring? A:It takes a lot of time and energy to secure ...

In a few weeks, some 200 Minnesota birders will flock to the Salt Lake Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Lac qui Parle County ...

Spring snow, not surprisingly, tends to drive the birds to the feeders, especially the early migrants back in the region. But ...

Red-winged blackbird, sandhill crane, northern cardinal, yellow warbler, common loon and hummingbird also were on the list of indicators.

On Feb. 6 I wrote a column about what bird signified spring to me and explored whether some of our most common species even leave the state for winter ... woodcock, trumpeter swan and turkey ...

“Trumpeter swans are on a migration and need open-water lakes,” he ... The lakes also started to freeze later than usual this winter, as previously reported by Pique. The waterfowl are drawn to ...

The last part of March seemed to pass slowly, at least for those of use impatient for spring. Each of us has their own sequence of observations for the arrival of spring, depending on their interests ...

The trumpeter swan can occur any time of year but is most frequent from October through May. This winter rarity has been found on four Ludington Christmas Bird Counts. The daily maximum number was 30 ...