Q: I watched a beautiful male cardinal feeding an all-brown bird on the roof of my garage. Why would it feed another species? A: That’s a great observation and it indicates how different young ...

It’s hard to resist a northern cardinal bird. They’re lively, bright and amazing songsters. Amid the browns, blues and greens of the natural world, northern cardinals are showstoppers. And in winter’s ...

An Eastern Kingbird keeps watch over the Kennebec River from a branch in July in Winslow. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer) Warming temperatures means birds will be looking for places to nest, lay ...

The birds get quite busy like shown here at 7:30pm! They are getting ready to settle down for the evening until the morning hours. They continuously work on maintaining the needed calories to get ...