Back in 2004, in what now seems like another life, I had a memorable experience on my way to work. Walking east along Wacker Drive, I noticed what looked like a leaf floating toward the sidewalk. It ...

Sitting on a bench surrounded by 70-foot-tall Norway spruces, I watch a red-breasted nuthatch take a peanut from a feeder in my front yard. There’s a cool breeze on this sunny autumn day, and I know ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — It's Tuesday, and you know what that means: adorable furballs and wiggle-butts looking for their fur-ever family! Today we met Nuthatch, a gorgeous orange kitty looking for a ...

No one likes to get duped by fake news, including the red-breasted nuthatch. A year-round resident of the Inland Northwest, this quirky little bird does its best to verify information before ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 24—The reintroduction of brown-headed nuthatches is succeeding in the Missouri Ozarks, according to the latest survey by the ...

I love to visit the oak woodlands at any season. There’s always something going on, between migratory birds and the year-round presence of titmice, chickadees, jays and white-breasted nuthatches. This ...

First off, I want to wish you a Happy New Year. I hope that any effects of self-inflicted devastation have worn off and that you are able to kick back and relax on the first weekend of the New Year.

A group of bird watchers walked the trails at Tamarack Nature Center recently, on the lookout for late migrants as well as birds that will be around all winter. We'd come to this large park in White ...

Description: At 4.5 inches long, one of Georgia’s smallest songbirds; brown cap and narrow, dark eyeline; white spot on the back of the neck is visible at close range; grayish wings, back, and tail ...

Human progress has not been kind to either the Eastern bluebird or the brown-headed nuthatch. The bluebirds lost their homes in fence posts to large-scale farming. Logging and development took the ...