When T.S. Roberts wrote the last really big Minnesota bird book in 1932, “Birds of Minnesota,” ravens were dwindling, bald eagles were scarce and most everyone assumed the giant subspecies of resident ...

The new book "The Breeding Birds of Minnesota" is the first comprehensive guide to the state's 250 species since the 1930s. In 1932, when T.S. Roberts published the first guide to all the birds known ...

Northland birding guide Judd Brink, in center standing on the grass, uses binoculars to watch an uncommon northern hawk owl in the Sax-Zim Bog north of Duluth on Monday as two of his birding clients ...

Minnesota's extensive library of books about its birds received a substantial addition recently when the University of Minnesota Press published "Birds in Minnesota." This is yet again a revised and ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. A migratory diver of the loon family, the common loon (Gavia immer) has been ...

ST. PAUL — North America has lost more than a quarter of its bird population, or nearly three billion birds, over the past half-century. Carrol Henderson has seen this decline here among some of ...

Rain was just letting up as folks started arriving at Roberts Bird Sanctuary in southwest Minneapolis. Groups meet there most weekend mornings in the spring to see and hear migrating warblers, ...

Discover how tiny black-capped chickadees outsmart brutal Minnesota winters with hidden food stashes, hypothermia tricks and ...