Plant these native trees to attract more birds to your backyard. Discover the best trees to grow to provide habitat and food ...

Not only will a bird tree make your yard look great and add to the holiday spirit, it also gives birds a nutritious boost ...

Life is good, but October and autumn are racing by after a most beautiful September that allowed many plants to excel … and us humans to enjoy some really nice temperatures. These plants included ...

The American smoketree (Cotinus obovatus) is a small, striking tree that both you and your favorite songbirds will love having in your backyard. It provides multi-season beauty beginning in late ...

SAUKVILLE – Prairies are rich wildlife habitats. They are so bountiful, in fact, sometimes they even host species that evolved to breed elsewhere. For proof we need only look at two restored ...

Every piece of the natural world is important, playing a role in supporting other pieces and keeping the whole shebang stable and resilient. But some species seem to do more than their share. A good ...

With less than two weeks before Christmas, many of our region’s birds migrated to their warm wintering grounds long ago. But the cedar waxwing is making merry in the Inland Northwest, its palette of ...

Their feathers, roosting behaviors and adaptability help birds survive the cold, “nature’s proving ground.” By Margaret Roach Winter mornings begin at David Sibley’s Deerfield, Mass., household as ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...