When T.S. Roberts wrote the last really big Minnesota bird book in 1932, “Birds of Minnesota,” ravens were dwindling, bald eagles were scarce and most everyone assumed the giant subspecies of resident ...

The new book "The Breeding Birds of Minnesota" is the first comprehensive guide to the state's 250 species since the 1930s. In 1932, when T.S. Roberts published the first guide to all the birds known ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. EMILY BRIGHT: That's what I heard first thing Sunday morning heading into the radio station before dawn, a cacophony of birds in my neighborhood. There are ...

The birder in your life likely covets "The Breeding Birds of Minnesota: History, Ecology and Conservation," from the University of Minnesota Press. The two-pound doorstopper has 1,145 color images of ...

Minnesota winters can push both people and wildlife to their limits. The cold settles in deeply, snow piles up for months at a time, and the world outside can feel frozen in place. Yet in the middle ...

Coupled with the regular assortment of blue jays, white-breasted nuthatches and black-capped chickadees, pine grosbeaks add ...

A migratory diver of the loon family, the common loon (Gavia immer) has been important to people living in the Great Lakes region for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. A migratory diver of the ...