Every year around this time a diminutive and delicate-looking bird, about the size of a common house sparrow, shows up in small groups at North Point State Park in Baltimore County, on the shores of ...

The snow bunting is another of November's emblematic birds. Like other November birds -- rough-legged hawk, snowy owl, tree sparrow -- the snow bunting is a visitor. Unlike the others, it spends the ...

The scarcity of pine siskins reminds us that the appearance of many northern birds is unpredictable here. Some years, yes; some years, no or nearly so. This is true of the siskins, as discussed last ...

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - One of Wisconsin's unique visitors come winter is starting to arrive in some locations across the state. The snow bunting, the northernmost songbird, spends its winters in the ...

November gives us shorter days with early sunsets and cooling temperatures. We start to see ice on ponds, swamps and eventually on lakes. Since the ground and forest floor are covered with downed ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Every season brings a change in the local bird population as different species come and go on their annual migrations. It isn't really the cold weather that drives migration but ...

Animals move around the globe in billions, sometimes - like the snow bunting - one of the iconic Arctic-breeding species, covering huge distances and enduring the most extreme frigid weather ...

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Texans got a rare present on Christmas Eve when a bird of the high Arctic, a snow bunting, appeared at Isla Blanca Park on South Padre Island. Since record keeping began, the bird has shown up on ...

On a beautiful sunny day in late November, I patrolled the western shore of Lake Mille Lacs, looking beyond the ice rimming the shoreline to scan for lingering waterfowl. Wind had blown some of the ...

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The day dawned bright and sunny at my place, so I decided to visit the wetlands, to catch some rays and maybe see something interesting. By the time I got there, though, clouds were shedding ...