Easy trails, lush woodland, and an accessible lake offer excellent birding in eastern Pennsylvania. Lake Towhee County Park is a 222-hectare (549-acre) rural park abutting the quiet village of Appl...
The big, handsome Canada goose dabbles for food, mates for life, talks with loud honks and flies the skies in energy-conserving V-formations called skeins. During the past week, I’ve heard Ca...
An Aussie icon, the laughing kookaburra greets the dawn with maniacal chortles and flies ritualized trapeze flights to defend its home group’s territory. This week’s featured bird i...
Petite and agile, the southern double-collared sunbird and greater double-collared sunbird are avian jewels and nectar feeders extraordinaire in Southern Africa. Since I missed last week’...