From Florida to Texas to Arizona and north to Alaska, there is one tiny bird that never fails to delight us. Most recently, we have been seeing them along the Big Springs Nature Trail in Island Park ...

As more and more of the national and international news seems to be increasingly depressing and alarming, I imagine that many of you, like myself, might be looking for solace wherever you can find it.

It is about this time of year that I start getting inquiries about an unfamiliar little bird appearing at area feeders. The description is of a very small, greenish bird that is usually attracted to ...

Few birds bespeak winter bird-watching in Houston like the ruby-crowned kinglet. The tiny, plump and hyperactive bird flits among trees and bushes everywhere. The kinglet migrates here for the winter, ...

As more and more of the national and international news seems to be increasingly depressing and alarming, I imagine that many of you, like myself, might be looking for solace wherever you can find it.

For the first time in a decade, the trees and bushes of my neighborhood have apparently contained enough of a buffet to entice a particularly minute and ravenous visitor to stay all winter: the ...

It wasn't the temperature dipping that made me realize winter was coming, but instead, a bantam bird called a ruby-crowned kinglet in a bush outside my study window. I perked up at the sight of the ...