The meadowlark has been a newsmaker this summer – but not the North Dakota state bird, which is the western meadowlark. The newsmaker is its close relative – almost a twin species – the eastern ...

The Eastern meadowlark seems to have a flute for voice. Its inimitably sweet melody sounds like the words spring-of-the-year. Yet meadowlarks can sing about 100 varying melodies, each song announcing ...

The meadowlark’s reveling song rolls across prairies and fields with a fluted melody, as if singing "spring-of-the-year." Early European settlers gazing over May’s serene meadows in the New World must ...

During the nesting season, eastern and western meadowlarks in Oklahoma are somewhat segregated by range, with a broad area of overlap in central Oklahoma. During the winter months, some western ...

The threatened eastern meadowlark is one of several ground-nesting species that live on the 110-acre parcel, which was recently preserved by the Vermont wildlife department. Jill Kilborn, right, and ...

As I wrote last week, the western meadowlark is the most commonly reported bird in Idaho and Nevada. It has achieved the status of the “state bird” in six states — Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North ...