times of stress or boredom, people look for distractions. During the worrisome months of the pandemic lockdown in 2020 and through the anxious months before the first vaccines became available, so ...

Are your female ID skills weak? Do you slide past female birds because, well, they are harder to identify? You're not alone. Birding is rife with sexism. It's what we've been taught by books and ...

Minnesota's extensive library of books about its birds received a substantial addition recently when the University of Minnesota Press published "Birds in Minnesota." This is yet again a revised and ...

Then, try bird watching. Make or buy your own bird feeder. Use kid binoculars to observe what birds live in your backyard. Go on a hike and look for birds. Volunteer to tag birds at your local ...

Just as spring begins to show its annual gifts of rejuvenation — and as we celebrate Earth Day — two new books offer reflections on ways that watching birds can renew our joy in nature, and maybe even ...

Some new books are also waiting for you to expand your ornithological curiosity, as well. “Field Guide to the Birds of the United States and Canada West,” and “Field Guide to the Birds of the United ...

The Dickinson County Library continues to expand its unique offerings for patrons, with grab-and-go birding kits as the ...

Four years after people took up bird-watching during the pandemic, there's a spate of new books about birding capitalizing on this heightened interest. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times) In times of ...