Times readers were invited to share their drawings of the avian life around them. Here are more of our favorites. By The New York Times All through the summer, as part of our birding project, The ...

WASHINGTON — When it comes to global warming, the canary in the coal mine isn’t a canary at all. It’s a purple finch. As the temperature across the U.S. has gotten warmer, the purple finch has been ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... New Market, Va. – Steve Kress would like a few words with you if you’re among the many property owners manicuring their yards to resemble putting greens on a ...

Washington Post Gardening columnist Adrian Higgins answered reader questions recently in an online chat. Here is an edited excerpt. Q: I want nothing more than to have my backyard be a sanctuary for ...

Drawing birds made easy with numbers🦜🖌️!!

Most of the pure pleasure of being an outdoorsman is being outdoors, roaming woods and fields, fishing in streams and lakes, hiking forest trails, or boating along this body of water or that.

SNOHOMISH — Should birds wear shoes? It’s a question philosophers have pondered since dinosaurs levitated and sprouted wings. Now, a Snohomish man has an answer: Yes. Jim Sorensen didn’t intend to ...

"What should I look for in buying a birdhouse?" a friend asked recently. It was a good question and I wish I'd had a more straightforward answer than "It depends." The choice of a birdhouse (aka nest ...