A few years ago on a Sunday drive near the edge of West Fargo, creeping along with no particular route in mind, one of my kids let out the proverbial: "Look." Instinctively I took my foot of the ...

It is with good reason that the western meadowlark is the state bird in Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Wyoming and Oregon. It is a gorgeous bird with a beautiful song. (Only the northern ...

A proposal to dump the western meadowlark in favor of the osprey for the Oregon state bird flew through the Senate this week, drawing lofty rhetoric from lawmakers. “The osprey is like Oregon,” Sen.

Three Willamette Valley wetlands are being restored as part of a broad effort to attract the Western meadowlark back to its historic breeding ground. The Institute for Applied Ecology project includes ...

You'll probably hear one before you see it, though seeing the western meadowlark isn't necessarily hard to do, as they reside in much of Colorado year-round, and they like finding tall, open perches ...

As I wrote last week, the western meadowlark is the most commonly reported bird in Idaho and Nevada. It has achieved the status of the “state bird” in six states — Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North ...

A few years ago on a Sunday drive near the edge of West Fargo, creeping along with no particular route in mind, one of my kids let out the proverbial “look.” Instinctively I took my foot of the gas — ...

There are bird calls that are distinctive, and then there are those calls that are unmistakable. While attempting to describe the call of an avian species on paper in a column such as this is ...

DEVILS LAKE - The North Dakota state bird is the Western meadowlark, a familiar, yet declining, songbird who’s melody booms across the prairie with its rich, flute-like call and equally glowing yellow ...

A birding drive on Wednesday, March 20, did not turn up a western meadowlark, as I had hoped it would. Nor did it produce the huge number of migrating geese reported over the weekend. We might have ...

Whereas the 2017 Oregon Legislature was in the throes of sine die July 7 with very little in the way of gut-and-stuff surprises, and amid self-congratulatory back-patting over passing a balanced ...