Backyard birding can be a wonderful winter pastime, but it’s important to do it safely — for your sake and the birds’.

With dense mountain ranges, sprawling fields and extensive wetlands, Vermont is home to a wide variety of birds, and a destination for people hoping to catch a glimpse of them. While Vermont may be ...

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Two bobolinks, a male on the left and female on the right, hanging out in a field. Photo courtesy fo Allan Strong Lindsey Papasian is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University ...

The 2023-2024 Christmas Bird count continues until January 5, but several counts in southern Vermont took place on Dec. 16. A tentative impression is of generally fewer numbers of birds overall but ...

A relatively new program in Vermont is helping both maple syrup-producing farms and their customers to improve forest habitat preferred by a diversity of bird species. Launched in 2014, the ...

Feathered friends bring many benefits to our outdoor space, but the types of birds you might see in your backyard will depend on where you live. For example, perhaps you live in North America, in ...

INTERSTATE, IT’S POSSIBLE IN PLACES TO EXIT AND WITHIN ONLY A MILE OR SO, FIND YOURSELF ON VERY WINDING, VERY NON-MAJOR BACK ROADS LIKE IN HUNTINGTON, VERMONT. WE’VE HAD A FEW PEOPLE UBER HERE, AND WE ...

In Vermont they noted an abundance of grassland birds in Norwich, Hartford and West Windsor. There are several causes for the decline, Sydoriak says. In the Midwest, the heart of these birds’ ranges, ...