A striking bird that trills a beautiful song, the western meadowlark seems the ideal feathered friend to spotlight on Mother’s Day. Not only does the bird flash a daffodil-yellow breast emblazoned ...

UNL staff member’s meadowlark design wins county’s inaugural sticker contest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

FARGO - 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 ...

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 ...

The questions "What are species?" and "How do we identify species?" are difficult to answer, and have led to debate and disagreement among biologists. See how consensus on answers to these questions ...

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 ...