birding

When asked to name the one distinguishing feature that sets birds apart from other creatures, many people answer that the ability to fly is unique among birds and birds only...

Sitting in camp on the last morning of a Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness adventure that my son and I recently enjoyed, I asked him what he liked the most...

Native American creation stories are spiritual and lively, and they involve the natural world. Animals are often central players in these accounts of how humankind came to be. The stories...

My favorite place in the world I know is the Boundary Waters; and it's there that I'll be this coming week. My boy and I - his first-ever trip -...

I don't have a "Life List," so to speak, of birds I wish to observe before I'm long gone. My favorite field guidebook, "Golden Book's Birds of North America," is...

Over the past few summers I have enjoyed a special pair of visitors in my house, or I should say, on my house. During the summers of '08 and '09...

To feed birds or not to feed birds, that is the question - at least in bear country. From now until Minnesota's black bears enter hibernation sometime in mid to...

For the life of me, I don't see the resemblance between a flying cigar and a chimney swift. First of all, the very notion of a flying cigar is ridiculous...

Last month I participated in the annual Big Bog Adventure Day where northern Minnesota school children arrived by the busload to learn about everything floral and faunal in the patterned...

A few evenings ago, I drove my boy and the dog to the public water access of Hennepin Lake in northern Hubbard County, just a couple miles from our home...

I wonder how the bluebirds are doing along the Bluebird Trail. When I think about that lovely and meandering trail in northwestern Minnesota, dotted with about 60 Peterson-style bluebird houses,...

I read with interest a recent Internet article about a beaver dam so large that it's visible from outer space. Discovered by a Canadian ecologist in Wood Buffalo National Park,...

Could it be that the brown creeper evolved the opposite foraging strategy of the similar behaving nuthatches so the species could co-exist in the same habitat? Indeed, nuthatches and the...

It's turkey time in Minnesota. Thousands of hunters are taking to the woods once again to participate in a pastime that many call an addiction. And by the time many...