The ordinary can result in the extraordinary. For proof here's a fresh tale, certified and true, from northern Wisconsin. Tim Oksiuta of Moquah was out birding Feb. 14 in Ashland. Nothing unusual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fieldfare's native habitat is Europe and Western Asia, and it traditionally migrates south to Africa and the Middle East. But ...

ALTHOUGH, in the words of the carol we are still ‘in bleak midwinter’, the days after Christmas begin to show their stretch, whispering to us that the world is turning as it should, propelling us to ...

A recently fledged fieldfare, Turdus pilaris, photographed in Skien, Norway. Image: Ernst Vikne, 26 May 2004 (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license) [velociraptorize]. Canon EOS ...

Alain Clavette is back from Nova Scotia where a rare fieldfare is visiting from Europe, plus he talks about banding snow buntings. (Photo: fieldfare from Alain Clavette) ...

MISSOULA -- In the field guide, it’s called a fieldfare. In the bird-watching world, it’s a Code 4 event. “It kind of blows your mind to have one in Missoula,” Five Valleys Audubon Society board ...

During the past few weeks, as snow and ice has gripped the country, birds have been fleeing south and west to avoid the cold and find food. Many of them have ended up here, in relatively snow-free ...

A fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) feeds its chicks in the nest. Wild birds bring food to their hungry young, whose bright orange mouths beg for something tasty. A beautiful nature moment captured in a ...

Experts say this is only the 3rd time a fieldfare has been spotted in the province Avid birder Chris Charlesworth estimates it took him 60 seconds to vacate his house after he got the phone call last ...