Laura's Birding Blog

A research paper published in Science last October is still making news—in it, a group of scientists established that the total number of b...

Evening Grosbeaks, the very first species on my yard list, were very common when we first moved here in 1981.   Russ and I moved into our ho...

In the past couple of years, I’ve had pretty good luck taking photos of a couple of individual Ruffed Grouse—one of those species I particul...

On September 7, I got an email from James Stone, who lives near Northome, Minnesota. He summed up migration in his neck of the woods:  2 1/2...

The winter of 1984-85 was a fairly harsh one, but a pair of Blue Jays stuck it out the whole season. Starting in early fall, they noticed th...

By Dominic Sherony - Flickr: Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31993565   ...

  On March 17, 1975, when I was a brand new birder, Russ and I went to the Morton Arboretum outside of Chicago, where I saw my very first Ca...

When I started birding in the 1970s, the scientific consensus was that virtually all bird song is performed by males. Yes, there were a few ...

Thanks to everyone who has supported my work via Patreon or a direct contribution! Some wonderful people mailed me checks or cash but didn...

I’ve read of people who claim to tell their individual Blue Jays apart by facial markings, but to my eyes, Blue Jays all look pretty much th...