Happy Fourth. You can expect to see our patriotic colors red, white and blue nearly everywhere this weekend in honor of Independence Day on Monday. Likewise, our national symbol, the majestic bald ...

A bright red bird is one of the most eye-catching wonders of nature. Beyond their beauty, there is a reason behind that pop of color. Male birds are typically the brightly colored ones, which helps ...

Lately, my home in the country has been all a whirl with the sights and sounds of one of my favorite birds. Few birds can rival the striking beauty of the red-headed woodpecker. With a brilliant ...

As Steven Hogg sees it, sometimes you have to pick up the critters and move them to the new habitat. Sometimes if you build it, they will come. And sometimes, when it's red-headed woodpeckers you're ...

When the red-headed woodpecker showed up in our yard, we were quite thrilled. These birds are quite scarce these days and seeing them is a real treat. Although we have had them frequent our woods from ...

Local results The two most-spotted birds in the local Christmas Bird Count are out-of-towners. The European starling and the Canada goose show up the most in the 2023 counts across southwestern ...

The red-headed woodpecker is an uncommon sight in Minnesota outside of the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in East Bethel, where researchers have homed in on dozens of breeding pairs that return ...