Rock Wren is an apropos name for a bird that lives in sparsely vegetated, arid and rocky canyons. These birds breed on talus slopes, scrublands and dry washes, from desert to alpine in western North ...

I may have mentioned this before, but a dear friend of mine once told me that there were only three types of birds: if it soars, it’s a hawk; if it swims, it’s a duck, and everything else are just ...

This winter I WILL locate a winter wren. That’s my plan, anyway, with one of my goals for the year being to find some of the Boulder County birds that I have never seen. The boreal owl, which lives in ...

Wrens are one of my favorite groups of birds. They are small, cute, and like to hide from us. That makes them challenging. But they also have songs that explode from cover and tell us which species ...

House wrens are spunky little birds about the size of a newly hatched chicken. They once inhabited almost every backyard and garden, consuming insects and chattering away to inform the world of their ...

When conservation or land use issues arise, people often include large, likeable animals in the discussion. The recent debate over off-leash dogs and model airplanes at Coot Lake and Boulder Reservoir ...

Counting dainty rock wrens/tuke is tricky but a new survey is revealing where this threatened alpine bird is hanging on in the South Island mountains. Photo: Digby Shaw, DOC Rock wrens/tuke live ...