Sure, birds can be annoying. On Portland’s Sauvie Island now, snow geese unnervingly dominate the sky like a Hitchcock horror film, and aptly named cackling geese create such an unrelentingly racket ...

I’ve become The Bird Guy to my friends and family. When they see a bird they don’t recognize, I’m asked to identify it with nothing more than a blurry photo. When the algorithms feed them bird-related ...

Watching a busy backyard feeder from your living room window is fun and exciting, but there’s a wider world of birds waiting to be explored. Species as diverse as tiny yellow warblers and majestic ...

If you want to improve your birding, or just occasionally look up a bird you've seen, you'll need a good field guide. Debbie Waters, education director for Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, recommends two ...

The Outside Institute’s Field Guide to the Northeast, a three-guide series. Mushrooms: An Illustrated Field Guide by Niko Summers (Whalen, 2022) National Audubon Society’s Wildflowers of North America ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Writer Amy Tan scours her yard in Sausalito, California for birds. Her recently published book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, ...

In my own experience, I look for three things in a field guide: detailed illustrations, convenient size and complete listings of birds likely to be encountered. I prefer field guides with ...

The task is simple: walk or die.

PORT ANGELES — Matt Kracht said he was unsure what the reaction to his first book, “The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America,” might be when it was published in 2019. Modeled on authoritative ...

Northland birding guide Judd Brink, in center standing on the grass, uses binoculars to watch an uncommon northern hawk owl in the Sax-Zim Bog north of Duluth on Monday as two of his birding clients ...

One of my new projects is to write a guide to the birds of Bogus Basin. In 2015, I helped create the “Field Guide to Boise’s Birds,” available online and ...