Walking along a trail in a northern Illinois woodlands, I noticed the silhouette of our earliest arriving migratory flycatcher. It’s not a colorful bird — Its body and wings are grayish-brown, its ...

As birds go, the eastern phoebe is as plain as they come. Nevertheless, the phoebe is an active, energetic and interesting bird. The phoebe is uniformly gray brown, slightly darker on the head. Its ...

I live with a condition that I have named “OCB.” I self-identify as an obsessive-compulsive birder. This is not a disorder as much as it is simply a lifestyle. I’ve never gotten into a car accident ...