Driving to town on a winter day, I occasionally see flocks of white birds where the wind sweeps across fields, blowing snow across the road and exposing the grass. Rising and falling, the birds look ...

A painted bunting sports a jaw-dropping rainbow of colors. Learn what the male and female looks like, what the bird eats and ...

Steve Coari sent this photo of a snow bunting that he took last weekend at Tom’s Cove at Chincoteague. Be on the lookout for these pretty little birds. Though snow buntings nest on the Arctic tundra, ...

“When winter storms sweep across the land these birds blow in like true snowflakes and settle down on wind-blown hillsides and benchlands to feed upon the weed stalks that rise above the snow. They ...

I don’t want any trouble, Chris, “What are you looking at?” is usually a line heard in a movie, just before a barroom brawl breaks out. But in this case, it was a friendly inquiry from Chris, whom I ...

As a few green shoots popped up in intertidal meadows and along the beach fringes in the middle of March, a welcome avian harbinger of spring arrived: a small flock of snow buntings foraged among the ...

If country roads had birds to represent them the way states and nations do, then surely the snow bunting would be among the birds to represent North Dakota's roads. Probably everyone who's ever driven ...

A regular happening with songbirds in spring is that they will live up to their names and sing when arriving back from migration. Most of these migrants that nest in the Northland come back from ...

Spring is not far off in Alaska. Colder temperatures seem to be hanging on, but a look at yearly averages seem to indicate we were spoiled by the mild winter and thus are expecting the spring to be ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Christmas has come early for bird enthusiasts in Brooklyn. A beautiful male "Painted Bunting" was first spotted in Prospect Park on Sunday. Since then, it's been attracting ...