FORBES, Minn. - It was a fairytale in the Sax-Zim bog on Wednesday, Oct. 17. A beautiful solitude held still, with rolling mounds of moss and vegetation snuggled into the ground. Shooting out of the ...

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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 ...

Environmentalists are seeking Endangered Species Act protections for an Arctic-dwelling bird that has not been documented in ...

There’s a big debate simmering in the Legislature, and it’s certain to split Maine residents into two groups. No, not Democrats and Republicans. The debate is about birds — chickadees specifically.

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 ...

At one time, boreal chickadees bred on Mount Desert Island. They are still thick in the North Maine Woods, but they’re disappearing along the coast. Credit: Bob Duchesne And so it ends, not with a ...

A black-capped chickadee by any other name is a Poecile atricapillus. That’s the bird’s scientific name, the reference used worldwide to avoid the confusion a list of local names could offer. For ...

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