A shrill  ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki  breaks the silence of the forest, and a pair of fairly large brown birds with flashes of yellow in their wings ...

The Field Sparrow ( Spizella pusilla ) is a small songbird in the family Emberizidae (Order Passeriformes) that occurs throughout most of ea...

If you live in or near pine forest regions of the southeastern United States, you have a decent chance of encountering the Red-cockaded Wood...

My first sighting of a gallinule was over twenty years ago at Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge.  It was a Purple Gallinule, and utterly unmi...

Although many North American bird species completed their spring migration months ago, some are just now beginning to set up territories and...

My first “sighting” of a Swainson’s Warbler wasn’t really a sighting at all.    I was birding one of the local sewage treatment ponds with m...

While the Northern Cardinal is the most familiar “redbird” in southeastern North America, the region hosts another rosy-plumaged songbird sp...