A species resigned to mostly large lakes and rivers of North America’s northern latitude during the breeding season, common ...

Renaming North American bird species has found support and ridicule. Some Minnesota ornithologists and birders say the time is right to decolonize names. By Bob Timmons November 19, 2023 at 10:59PM ...

As humans have transformed the natural environment, abundant birds have suffered the most—while some rare species have ...

The Legislature named the common loon as Minnesota’s state bird in 1961 in large part because it’s so distinctive, with its white-spangled black plumage, long black bill and those Morocco red ...

It turns out what we don't know about bluebirds could fill a book. A monograph on Eastern bluebirds suggests many other areas of potential study for these birds, common to Minnesota, that ...

The DNR says Minnesota hosts 12,000 common loons during breeding season, more than any other state except Alaska. You might enjoy visiting the web page of the National Loon Center in Crosslake ...

Clay-colored sparrows were common across the state when the last big Minnesota breeding bird book was published nearly 100 years ago. In recent decades, however, their numbers have rapidly fallen.

She's co-author of The Breeding Birds of Minnesota, that book which is out today. And you can catch her and her co-author, Gerald Niemi, talking about the book next Thursday, that's May 9th, at 6: ...

Minnesota's EagleCam is back — with new birds Updated November 25, 202412:14 PM ET Heard on Morning Edition By ...

The North American bird population has dropped nearly 3 billion birds, or 30%, since 1970, according to a study by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. "We just need to make sure, in the end, of ...