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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...