I have to admit that a good part of my attraction to tree-line in Northwest Montana - aside from pikas in the talus, whitebark pines, nutcrackers and rosy finches - is the 50-50 chance of a ...

Tom Bower's photo a boreal chickadee is pictured here. Other birders contend it's a black-capped chickadee, and that a stem obscures the head, making it appear brown. The birders say other field marks ...

Forty years ago, Maine wildlife officials and local birders joined up to create the first Atlas of Breeding Birds in Maine. The five-year survey documented the range of avian species nesting and ...

Post Bulletin columnist John Weiss recently visited Sax-Zim Bog, near Virginia, Minn., for the first time. He was uninspired at first glance, but greatly rewarded for his patience. A boreal chickadee ...

NORTH SLOPE, Alaska — “Chick chick whirrr, chick whirrr.” Although it was a recorded birdsong that chattered through each of the poplar stands we entered, I still occasionally caught myself believing ...

GRAND FORKS -- February was a rough month to be a wildlife photographer. The frozen wind rapidly removed what heat was left in my hands while holding the camera. Through it all, I gained far more ...

My fingers still ache from the icy-cold, while the Phantom of the North continues to warm my heart and I’m reminded that in wildlife photography one thing leads to another. Last September while ...

Our next story pits north against south. It is about climate change. It is about state sovereignty. It is about songbirds. NICK LUND: Chickadee is not a bird. It's a family of birds. CORNISH: That's ...

Almost every yard in Victoria and adjacent counties has a family of these little black-and-white birds. They are one of our most common songbirds, and yet they constantly get overlooked for the more ...

Our last column focused on Juncos. This week, we will focus in a lesser manner on two other feeder birds, the black-capped chickadee and the more recent addition, the house finch. Let us begin with ...