It’s rare to see a movie where birds play a key role. I touched on “The Birds” by Alfred Hitchcock in my June 28, 2023, column where my main topic was Brewer’s blackbird. What usually catches my eye — ...

TWIN FALLS — Greg Green, director of the movie “Magpie Funeral,” will be this week’s speaker at Chautauqua Tuesday at The Lamphouse Theater. “Magpie Funeral” is playing at the theater this week from ...

BOISE, Idaho — If you have been to the Flicks in downtown Boise, you might have seen a showing for "Magpie Funeral," but what you might not know is the filmmaker behind it lives here in the City of ...

"I once happened upon what seemed to be a magpie funeral service. A magpie had been hit by a car. Four of his flock mates stood around him silently and pecked gently at his body. One, then another, ...

We were recently walking through Hulls Gulch, on a trail we take at least once a week year-round. This winter, for the first time in 30 years or so, there has been a group of Steller’s jays. We ...