From forest edges and thickets on late spring mornings in the Northeast comes what sounds like an exhortation from across the ...

Distinctive markings: Male has a black head, back and tail with white belly, orange-red sides and red or white eyes. The female’s coloring has a browner cast. A flurry of flying leaves and ...

Usually you’ll hear an Eastern Towhee before you see it. This common, colorful bird spends much of its time rustling around in the undergrowth, foraging noisily through leaf litter or creeping ...

But it’s getting harder to spot the towhee or hear its distinctive “chewink” calls in Rhode Island and elsewhere across its range in the eastern half of the country. The bird’s numbers ...

My husband, Joe, grew up with birds, birders and birding, and in his words, "I had some of the best teachers in the world. I met, and was in the field with, Roger Tory Peterson (author and ...

In late 2016, mostly human-caused wildfires swept through the southern Appalachians, destroying over 2,000 homes and burning over 140,000 acres of land. Thousands of trees that had provided a ...

“There’s an Eastern towhee calling its name,” he exclaimed ... He’s 78 now, has been a regular at Worcester-area bird clubs since he was just 7, and has spent most of his life being ...

The 2025 State of the Birds report found 229 species ... And 112 species - including bobolink, chimney swift, eastern towhee, greater prairie chicken and whooping crane - are classified as ...

How to attract birds to your yard without feeders Identifying ... Eastern Kingbird, Baltimore Oriole, Eastern Towhee, Brown-headed Cowbird ...