SANTA CRUZ — Crows occupy branches of a tree on Broadway in Santa Cruz near the corner of Frederick Street. According to Cornell Lab of Ornithology, American Crows are “familiar over much of the ...

It’s not uncommon for still, silent winter landscapes to be suddenly disrupted by distant birdcalls. Within moments, half a dozen kinds of birds appear, flitting among tree branches, climbing up ...

I watched the true meaning of "birds flocking" recently. It was a warm early December day, in the early afternoon. In a not-too-distant tree there were maybe 70 or so chattering starlings, a ...

While sitting on my back porch one day during late afternoon, my leisurely pursuit was interrupted as a large and seemingly nervous flock of red-winged blackbirds happened to fly by my location. The ...