A few years ago on a Sunday drive near the edge of West Fargo, creeping along with no particular route in mind, one of my kids let out the proverbial: "Look." Instinctively I took my foot of the ...

DEVILS LAKE - The North Dakota state bird is the Western meadowlark, a familiar, yet declining, songbird who’s melody booms across the prairie with its rich, flute-like call and equally glowing yellow ...

Courtesy of George Gentry / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The osprey is one step closer to becoming Oregon's official state bird. The state Senate voted Thursday on a resolution that would give the ...

Eric DeFonso, an avid bird sound recorder and volunteer naturalist, sees and studies first-hand the declining bird population species in his backyard and worldwide, though finds comfort and resilience ...

A proposal to dump the western meadowlark in favor of the osprey for the Oregon state bird flew through the Senate this week, drawing lofty rhetoric from lawmakers. “The osprey is like Oregon,” Sen.

Recently Matt Smith and Marc Devokaitis posted online "A Modest Proposal: Can EBird Help Choose Better State Birds?" They propose replacing the Western Meadowlark with the Thick-billed Longspur as the ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon lawmaker says the current state bird is unoriginal, and instead wants to replace it. The Statesman Journal reports that state Sen. Fred Girod sponsored a resolution to ...

They propose replacing the Western Meadowlark with the Thick-billed Longspur as the state bird of Montana. They propose the Thick-billed Longspur (Rhynchophanes mccownii) because 60% of the global ...