Dec 26th, 2008 · Get out those binoculars and notepads. For the 109th year, birders throughout the Americas are navigating tropical forests and crunching through snowy meadows to tally up birds. Count director Geoff LeBaron and Cornell ornithologist John Fitzpatrick discuss the annual event.
Feb 24th, 2008 · As spring bird migrations start, avid birders are gathering with their binoculars to view the transition. But a new book warns that the beauty and variety of these feathered friends is threatened by the very people who admire them.
May 16th, 2007 · This weekend, the 19th Annual Southwest Michigan Team Birdathon will take place in Berrien County. Teams will criss-cross the area, counting as many species as possible on their official checklists before the end of the day. Here's how two teams fared in last year's event.
Feb 25th, 2006 · A winter bird-watching tour in the middle of New York harbor gives a hardy few a sense of how things must have looked to early settlers... and turns up numerous sightings of seabirds.
Dec 26th, 2005 · The discovery of an ivory-billed woodpecker, which many had believed to be extinct, outside Brinkley, Ark., has brought profound changes to the town. With hundreds of birders and scientists passing through to catch a glimpse of the bird, locals are attempting to capitalize on the excitement.
Jun 11th, 2005 · Birders and scientists are climbing mountains this month in the northeastern United States, tallying songbirds in the Mountain Birdwatch. Brian Mann of North Country Public Radio climbed a peak in New York's Adirondack Mountains in search of a rare thrush.
May 6th, 2005 · Obsessed birders searched the swampy woods of the southern United States for years, listening for the call of the Ivory-billed woodpecker. How was the bird finally found?