Editor's note: This story was updated to include that Lancaster County Bird Club hosted Lancaster County's three Christmas Bird Counts. Icy weather left recent Christmas Bird Counts in Lancaster ...

Every winter, the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count turns birding into a regional event, with the entirety of the Western Hemisphere competing. Thousands of people and interested birders ...

Going into this winter’s Christmas Bird Count, Anchorage organizers expected a subpar tally, given the unusually strong and cold winds roaring through the city on Dec. 14, the local area’s designated ...

Q: We had a live cut Christmas tree in our home and I’d like to extend its value to nature by propping it up in our backyard through the winter, decorated with food for birds. If it’s in the flower ...

I find it sad to see live Christmas trees left curbside for the weekly garbage collection. Consider reusing your natural Christmas decorations by recycling Christmas tree branches (cut into 2- to ...

It was a breezy morning and the ground uncharacteristically snow-free. The temperature was almost balmy, at least by mid-December standards. The strong breeze didn’t matter to the volunteers who ...

SOUTH SALT LAKE — As the Christmas Bird Count nears an end, a Utah nature center is making a concerted effort to involve the Latino and Spanish-speaking community in the initiative. All are welcome, ...

From raptors and waterfowl, to songbirds and corvids, Loveland’s trees, parks and reservoirs are home to a wide variety of feathered residents. To catalog them, local birdwatchers of all skill levels ...

Just after 3 a.m., Aaron Given goes looking for owls in the dark. The quiet ritual marks the start of the Sea Islands Christmas Bird Count, a survey he began 15 years ago after realizing the region ...

FIFIELD — Winter has not only arrived but has had spurts of polar vortexes. We experienced this cold weather Dec. 14, during our 60th annual Fifield-Park Falls Audubon Christmas Bird Count, started in ...