As winter loosens its grip, red-winged blackbirds, chickadees and migrating geese signal the arrival of spring, while ...

Carolus Linneaus, a Swedish scientist, gave the red-winged blackbird its scientific name, Agelaius phoenicus, in 1766. The name comes from the Greek words for flocking and red. Meet 5 types of ...

Signs of the coming of spring are appearing everywhere. So far, I’ve seen robins, red-winged blackbirds, killdeers, herring gulls, grackles, great-blue herons, geese, chipmunks, geese and others.

QUASQUETON — Just sitting here on Monday, the second day of daylight savings time, watching the steam rise off my maple sap ...

This boldly colored species boldly returns to Michigan in mid- to late February. By mid-March red-winged blackbirds can be ...

Greater Gardner bird watchers are welcoming a wide variety of birds to the area during the spring and migration season.

These boldly colored migratory birds spend the colder months in the southern United States and begin returning to Michigan in ...

Sugarhouses throw open their doors statewide while activities in, St. Johnsbury and St. Albans draw fans of all sorts of ...

But as a warming climate shortens Maine's winters, bird species once rarely seen during the colder months now hang around for ...

Goetze: A large and seemingly nervous flock of red-winged blackbirds happened to fly by my location one afternoon.