Sometimes I like to nerd out on a specific bird. The challenge is to learn something new, and I always do. Today's focus is the red-winged blackbird, a perfectly named harbinger of spring in northern ...

From the marshy "squall" of red-winged blackbirds to the bright white stripe of the bobolink among the tall grass, the return of certain birds from their fall migration back to their breeding habitat ...

Cold, cruel and unrelenting, February has come and gone. The skating rink that covered our walkway has finally been chipped away. Persephone, the goddess of spring is waiting in the wings, amusing ...

We go on a lot of walks these days as we work to socialize the wild puppy. Legacy Park, which has enough winding and intersecting paths that it's easy to take a different route each time, and plenty ...

A few days ago, we reached the vernal equinox. This event told us that we had as many hours of daylight as we have of darkness, and now with longer days continuing to grow, the light will now outlast ...

Brown-headed cowbirds are obligate brood parasites. That means they lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, leaving all the hard work of incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks to somebody else ...

When Lauren Levinson, now a Weinberg sophomore, was applying to college, she was faced with the task all other high school seniors are: the Common Application essay. Levinson knew just the topic for ...

You could call them “warriors of the wetland.” Or “meanies of the marsh,” even “bullies of the bulrushes.” Or you could call them by their name, red-winged blackbirds. With shiny black feathers and a ...