There was the year when all I saw were owls. One whose wings spread wide as it soared overhead while I trudged down High Drive in Bear Creek Park, its daytime appearance surprising me. And the ...
“Folklore of Lake Solano Birds” is the topic of a free presentation from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at Lake Solano Park west of Winters. Volunteer Barbara Cooper will talk about why this area is a ...
One of the themes of this “Bird Lore” column is the annual cycle of bird life. The marvels of bird migration, which follow our seasonal changes, result in a wonderful diversity of bird life throughout ...
A raven tapped on Edgar Allen Poe's door and window, but in Western North Carolina it has been owls, doves and turkey buzzards that have presaged death. As the story goes, the buzzard even tolls a ...
In Northeastern India’s Assam, women have joined forces to save the resident greater adjutant stork (Leptoptilos dubius), known locally as the hargila, which was long considered a “dirty, smelly bird” ...
A YOUNGSTER with a passion for collecting bird eggs is remembered as being an extraordinary resident of a Dorset village. Reginald Bosworth Smith had a keen interest in birds and would publish his ...