It was my pleasure to be the guest speaker at the Brainerd Lakes Area Audubon meeting in April. Prior to my presentation, John Richardson shared a story of a phone call he received just a few days ...

Bob Karp waited nearly three hours through a hot August Sunday for a glimpse of the painted bunting — sometimes called the most gorgeous bird in North America, with its feathers flashing red, green ...

A rare-for-North Carolina bird first spotted last year at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh apparently is making an encore appearance. The portrait Karp shared shows the bird’s fluffy ruby underside amid ...

The number of painted buntings has been declining for some years. Now, citizen scientists across the U.S. are helping track and gather more info to support the bird species.

If I have said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: nature is always changing. For some reason we people always think that everything stays the same. But when it comes to nature, it is never the ...