From colorful painted buntings to majestic pileated woodpeckers, discover the diverse bird species making appearances in backyards this season.

Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris): colorful, unmistakable. That’s exactly how one of my Costa Rica bird books describes the painted bunting in the little blurb next to the color photos, and I think ...

If I have said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: nature is always changing. For some reason we people always think that everything stays the same. But when it comes to nature, it is never the ...