Bird migrations offer a lot more than the drama of seeing a whole bunch of birds on the move. For many species, the songs and calls they make on the journey characterize the migration as much as the ...

Winter keeps rolling on, but I know that I’m not alone looking forward to spring! I also know we shouldn’t be wishing our lives away because spring will get here before you know it and, in a blur, ...

Many migratory birds travel by starlight, aloft in the night sky for hundreds and even thousands of miles to join us here. Never mind the calendar — for some the arrival of the first swallow is when ...

Oct. 11 is World Migratory Bird Day and Erie Bird Observatory needs volunteers to sit and count birds at Presque Isle State ...

My favorite part of watching birds in spring isn’t about watching them at all — it’s about listening. Many of the assorted sounds we refer to generally as “calls” are not season specific. Alarm calls ...

Spring migrations runs between March 1 and June 15. Fall migration runs between August 1 and November 30. Peak spring migration is in May in RI Have you heard the distinctive call of a red-winged ...