I’ve tried to write a column on local plants every month for the last year and a half. Now I’m switching gears and will write about some of eastern Idaho’s most common songbirds. I’ll start off with ...

What Does a Black-Capped Chickadee Look Like? Meet the black-capped chickadee, a beginner backyard birder’s dream. The small songbirds are considerably curious about humans and comfortable in our ...

Bird-feeding, if done properly, can help these birds survive. Black-capped chickadees, for example, have a much higher winter ...

Last week, a reader named Joy emailed me a photo of a bird that she couldn’t quite identify. One look at the photo, and I instantly understood both the observer's confusion and the mystery bird's ...

Each morning, after making coffee, my wife and I fill the distinctive, barn-red bird feeder that hangs down between our back deck and Illinois Mountain. As we fill the feeder, we whistle to signal to ...

During the darkest days of Alaska’s winter, black-capped chickadees stuff themselves with enough seeds and frozen insects to survive 18-hour nights. Where chickadees spent those long nights was a ...