A Say’s phoebe now resides in my neighborhood. I hear its territorial song off and on every day. Hearing it and seeing it ...

Five needle pines- I love them! It was the stately eastern white pine that introduced me to these trees of the five needle ...

Whether you're going hiking, camping in the backyard, or just reading about camping, prepare your kids to understand what ...

One species that has recently become regular in many neighbourhoods and gardens is the house wren. This species began colonizing the Sunshine Coast in the late ‘90s and only became common in the last ...

Bird Buddy's first-gen model was actually the world's first-ever smart bird feeder, ... when a Steller's jay spent an inordinate amount of time rummaging for a sunflower seed.

Steller’s jay is named for the German naturalist George Wilhelm Steller, who first described it in Alaska in 1741. They are great mimics with vocalizations including a harsh call that mimics ...

A dark-eyed junco enjoys the snow. Songbirds like the house sparrow, house finch, dark-eyed junco, evening grosbeak, gray crowned rosy-finch, Steller’s jay, Cassin’s finch, Canadian jay and the ...

Steller’s Jay is a large black and blue bird with a prominent crest. The front portion of their body is black, fading into dark blue on the rest of the body.

Reading through Arthur C. Bent’s "Life Histories of North American Birds" (1946), each of the jay species was divided into races or subspecies usually because of slight differences in plumage or size ...

The Steller’s Jay—and dozens more—could get a new name soon under a controversial proposal by the American Ornithological Society to re-name all birds named after people.

The large, colorful blue jay is a common sight for backyard bird watchers, and its range makes it a regular fixture in backyards and parks all over the entire eastern half the the United States.

I knew only a few of the birds that show up regularly in my yard—Northern Cardinal, Blue Jay, American Robin, Black-capped Chickadee. Gulls were just “seagulls”; terns were just terns.