New warblers have been arriving almost daily. This onslaught of migrants can intimidate less experience birders, but the most common warblers are fairly easy to identify. To see warblers, concentrate ...

The Rarity Garden by Richard Baines (Yorkshire Coast Nature, 2025). ISBN: 9781068364303. Hbk, £30.

Think “tropical birds” and your mind’s eye most likely sees birds decked out in yellow, red, blue, and green, far more brilliant than our everyday LBJs (little brown jobs). Warblers, more correctly ...

Conservation agencies and volunteers are out in jack pine forests in parts of the U.S. and Canada, searching for and counting a particular kind of bird, the Kirtland’s warbler. At 5:45 a.m. I met up ...

Bachman’s warbler is one of 21 species declared extinct last year – but scientists are still discovering its secrets. For more than 100 years, a tiny yellow and black bird has lain on its back: its ...