Red-breasted nuthatches are one of my favorite birds. Admittedly, I have a lot of favorites, but these are at the top of my list perhaps because they, as birds with a more northerly range than the ...

I wrote three weeks ago about my affinity for the nuthatches we see in New England. In the middle and southern parts of the region we see White-breasted Nuthatches much more frequently than its ...

Stoneybrook residents tell many tales about how dozens of wild monk parakeets — green gray-chested birds native to South America — came to roost in their Denbigh neighborhood. One says a truck bound ...

It’s a wonder that any of us get anything done with birds flying around looking like that. It looks so proud of itself with all those colours. The scarlet-chested parrot (Neophema splendida) is one of ...

Two readers, Barbara Kennedy and Arden Landis, wrote to me last week because they saw an unusual bird at their feeders. What they saw was a rose-breasted grosbeak, one of our beautiful returning ...

I always get this question — or a variation of it — from at least a few folks about this time of year: “A strikingly beautiful bird is coming to my feeder. It has a big red spot on its white breast, ...