A group of photographers stood near a stand of deciduous trees wondering whether the chilly wind was rustling winter’s fallen tree leaves scattered over the ground at the Coastal Prairie Conservancy’s ...

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 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 ...

Mark Robbins was just 13 when he saw a black and brown bird with a slightly curved beak, and a white belly fly to the base of a tree in his neighborhood, spin upwards in a spiral, and then, with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are lots of signs of spring. No one of them is definitive, but taken together they are completely convincing. Probably the most familiar of these signs is the arrival of the western meadowlark, ...

Former undergraduate's honors thesis leads to the official recognition of the Chihuahuan Meadowlark as a distinct species Johanna Beam’s wildlife sketches note subtle variations in color and features ...