Mid-October in the Northland means many trees in the deciduous forests are dropping their leaves after a colorful ending. Out in the swamps, the only deciduous conifers growing here, tamaracks, are ...

Most birds I see are common and familiar, so I can usually name them. But every now and then a mystery individual appears, and begins to ring alarm bells: what on earth is that? That's what happened ...

Meadow pipit, Anthus pratensis (protonym, Alauda pratensis), also known locally as the mippit, photographed at Ouse Fen, Cambridgeshire, UK. Image: Richard Thomas/TRAFFIC, April 2008 (with permission) ...

The alpine regions of Pikes Peak spring into life during summer. Grasses grow, tiny flowers bloom and the American pipit returns to nest on the tundra. In early May they arrive, showing up at ...

The double whammy of climate change and intensive farming are making bird species vanish from parts of the UK, a new study finds. Birds that prefer the cold, such as the meadow pipit, the willow tit ...

BIRD watchers from all over the British Isles are flocking to the North-East in a bid to see a rare visitor. A tundra nesting Red-Throated Pipit was blown off course on its way from its wintering ...

In Slovakia, near the village of Mikušovce near Lučenec, a new species of bird has been observed - the Richard's Pipit. This is the second sighting of a new bird species this autumn after the sighting ...

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in France has found that vagrancy may play a more important role in changes to migration patterns in birds than has been thought. In their ...

The male Sprague’s pipit was enraged. Flying in the June sky over the Montana prairie, he’d spotted a rival pipit singing in the swaying grass below. But when he dove to confront his adversary, he ...

The South Georgia Pipit (Anthus antarcticus) is the world's most southerly songbird. Its numbers are climbing back up after rat predators were removed from its home on the island of South Georgia.

Birdwatchers have been flocking to a reservoir in Berkshire to catch a glimpse of a rare American bird which has accidentally migrated to the UK. Almost one thousand people have travelled to Queen ...

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