CHOKE CANYON, Texas -- Birders with binoculars and cameras are flocking to a remote state park in search of a small yellow-chested bird that apparently crossed the U.S. border for the first time from ...

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EGREMONT — The pair should be deep in Mexico right about now. Or even farther south. But two rare yellow- and black-breasted birds called dickcissels are instead having a wintry layover in the avian ...

And then I dig around in my bag for my phone to hit up Google while I still have some semblance of what the bird looked like in my mind. Googling a bird is hit or miss: “gray bird, white chest,” ...

Birders with binoculars and cameras are flocking to a remote state park in search of a small yellow-chested bird that apparently crossed the U.S. border for the first time from its high-mountain ...