Was that the call of an eastern phoebe, the small grey bird local to the Upper Valley? Every spring, hundreds of species of birds can be viewed in the Upper Valley, many of which have migrated back to ...

The subject of this week's column is the hind end of the bird - the tail, in other words. This subject arises because during the week, I happened to see two bird species that use the tail extensively.

Do birds of a feather really flock together? Maybe. But maybe not. That’s what Project Phoebe at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve west of Woodland is hoping to find out over the next three years. The ...

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