Despite the name, these invasive birds are not actually sparrows but weaver finches, related to other weavers in Africa and elsewhere. European Starling Starlings, which are from Europe and Asia, ...

Our resident bird watcher and photographer Will Stenberg was busy this week along the St. Louis River in and around Jay Cooke State Park. On April 1 there were trumpeter swans at Chambers Grove Park ...

Plus, readers ask about goldfinches nesting and eating, starlings making holes in lawns and swans appearing in local waters.

The Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin is offering 278 field trips in 2025. The outings run from May to October across the state. Registration opens April 8.

Most fields held a few of them and a couple of fields had several hundred. Sloughs, too, were crowded with them. There they ...

Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught the Reader's ear—including by WateRR & Machacha, Half Gringa, and ...