What Does a Snow Bunting Look Like? White feathers with rusty accents help snow buntings blend right into a winter landscape. Look for these buntings foraging in flocks for weed seeds in fields or ...

November gives us shorter days with early sunsets and cooling temperatures. We start to see ice on ponds, swamps and eventually on lakes. Since the ground and forest floor are covered with downed ...

Snow buntings are perhaps one of the more underappreciated birds of winter. I remember the first time I ever knowingly saw snow buntings. It was years ago, I had arrived at my kids’ school parking lot ...

“When winter storms sweep across the land these birds blow in like true snowflakes and settle down on wind-blown hillsides and benchlands to feed upon the weed stalks that rise above the snow. They ...

The first official day of spring has come and gone. Alaska spring where I am is often minus 20 in the early morning hours. This year it hasn't seemed quite so cold. I've been rising to near- zero ...

Today, it may seem like winter will never end, but spring, and the seasonal influx of migrating birds is right around the corner. The first spring birds have already arrived: snow buntings were ...

RICHMOND At the Fort Clinch State Park awhile back, we walked a long pier out into the sea looking for the purple sandpiper. The book said such a bird was often seen there, but we didn't find one. We ...

Now that the weather's dropped, it can be hard to imagine spending more than a couple minutes outside. So how in the world are birds surviving in the cold? They're outside all winter long! Well one ...

Philadelphia's birding community is getting a rare glimpse of a painted bunting that's made a home in and around Bartram's Garden this winter. The species is part of the cardinal family and natively ...