Birdwatchers have long villainized the squirrel, but there's a darker evil lurking in your backyard. And it wants to pawn off an egg on you.

A strong beak can build a grand nest. It can also crank up the volume. Do we use our words to build a safe place, or just to overpower?

An Acorn Woodpecker never forgets. Staring at a woodpecker granary makes you consider the sorts of words you’re storing up and filing away.

A sapsucker uses its mouth to wound a tree and trap its prey. A simple word from our own human mouths can accomplish the same.

“No human being can tame the tongue.” But what about a woodpecker? The first in a 4-part series on woodpeckers and the power of words.

Inexplicably, a naturalist looked at you and thought to himself, "Meh. I’ve seen better." And so you got branded: Common. Lesser. Least.

No single creature on this globe lives more of its life in daylight than the Arctic Tern. To what lengths will we go to live in the light?

God sent Jesus to speak our language, wear our frame, walk our soil, bear our burdens — to seek and save storm-disoriented sparrows like us.

Discovering a new species should stir our imagination and humble anyone who thinks we’ve got this world pretty much figured out.

An avian flash mob walked past their cars and further on into a growing upward-looking crowd... The word got out, and the faithful gathered.

The pursuit of avian beauty offers a template for our communal pursuit of the Beautiful One.

How could a bird so valued on one side of the globe be so dismissed at the other? What's a bird worth anyway? And what about a human being?

If your life outlook is grounded in a commitment to personal growth, the mockingbird is an apt metaphor for you, a mascot of good-to-great.

Birds make great gifts, but you have to know when to quit.

Could a live turkey—not just the cooked and basted type—evoke in us a gratitude for awkward grace?