The chickadee flew right past me to a tree 15 feet away and disappeared into a hole in a gnarly ponderosa pine. It emerged less than a minute later, watched me for a moment and left to collect more ...

In June, if you’re observant, a window of nature opens for a short time. By now, common songbirds like chickadees and American robins have finally coaxed their growing young out of their nests and ...

DEAR JOAN: A few months ago, we built a nest box for a screech owl as we had heard some in our area. Now, several months later, after mounting the box in a tree and filling it with wood shavings, ...

Black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and mountain (P. gambeli) chickadees are common backyard birds native to the Colorado Front-Range with broadly overlapping distributions in western North America.

Ben Sonnenberg, a doctoral student in the Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology program, studies chickadees with Vladimir Pravosudov. Sonnenberg has coauthored many publications about the ...

FORBES, Minn. - It was a fairytale in the Sax-Zim bog on Wednesday, Oct. 17. A beautiful solitude held still, with rolling mounds of moss and vegetation snuggled into the ground. Shooting out of the ...