1997 Birds and Birding Articles

[10/1/1997] The return of mature forests in the East, good news for most wildlife, may be bad news for this scrub-loving bird Read Full Story>

[10/1/1997] The return of mature forests in the East, good news for most wildlife, may be bad news for this scrub-loving bird Read Full Story>

[8/1/1997] Some cuckoos apparently make an offer other birds can't refuse: Hatch my egg or else! Read Full Story>

[8/1/1997] Through new studies of bird plumes, science sleuths are solving some perplexing mysteries about avian migration patterns and the effects of pollution Read Full Story>

[6/1/1997] Scientists are finally learning how tiny hummingbirds survive in their world of incredible extremes Read Full Story>

[4/1/1997] Study of a threatened duck takes the author and other scientists to the edges of our last frontier and beyond Read Full Story>

[4/1/1997] From Maine to Colorado, mounting evidence indicates that many grassland bird species, like this Henslow's sparrow, are disappearing as fast as the prairies that support them Read Full Story>

[2/1/1997] More powerful than any other North American owl, faster than a scurrying lemming, able to withstand Arctic cold, the snowy owl is the Far North's toughest bird Read Full Story>

[12/1/1996] Biologists are still baffled by a duck that would rather swim than fly and that migrates east and west instead of north and south Read Full Story>