Come mid-winter, birders start to experience warbler-deficit disorder. The small, colorful songbirds are favorites among the binocular-toting crowd, and Ohio is a major warbler hotspot. Forty-one ...

Area songbirds are slowly but steadily molting into their breeding plumage. For some the transformation from winter basic plumage to breeding plumage is striking. I have written about the changes ...

I'm wondering when they will arrive, the little yellow-rumped warblers that dot my trees and shrubs beginning in October. The birds breed in coniferous woodlands ranging from Alaska across Canada to ...

Not all birds commonly seen in Chico live here year-round. Some appear for just a few weeks during their spring or fall migration. Others may stay for the summer. Yellow-rumped warblers and dark-eyed ...

The cardinals, bluebirds, woodpeckers and other songbirds that spent the summer in my yard, but left after August, are gradually returning this month. House finches returned weeks ago. The Carolina ...

The yellow-rumped warbler, nicknamed "butterbutt," is the most abundant warbler in North America. Unlike most warblers that migrate to tropical climates, the hardy yellow-rumped warbler often winters ...