While spring migration is celebrated as a great time to spot colorful birds, there are also plenty of unique songbirds and other species you can see in the late summer and fall in southwest Illinois ...

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If you’ve ever heard a bird and wondered what it was, the free Merlin Bird ID app for iPhone offers one of the easiest ways ...

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The dapper black and yellow bobolink likes the Chicago area so much he flies here every spring from South America — a journey of about 6,000 miles. By no means depleted, the plucky visitor goes on to ...

These days, it seems like there’s a “smart” version of everything. So it was only a matter of time before they made a bird feeder with a camera that lets you see birds up close on your phone and uses ...

Sarah Stewart, graduate student studying natural resources and environmental sciences, trekked through the shrubbery and landscape of Sand Prairie-Scrub Oak Nature Preserve. Soon, she spotted a small ...

Millions of birds pass through and above the Champaign-Urbana area on their way to warmer southern regions during the fall and winter migration period. At its peak, migratory numbers over C-U are in ...