Use the telescope from Challenge 5 to help you observe the birds and their tree home. Watch if a certain branch is more popular for birds to land on, or if you can find a nest. (Hint: If a bird ...

The American tree sparrow often occurs in flocks of up to 50 birds. In habitat and behavior, they are much like field sparrows, but American tree sparrows are more frequent at bird feeders.

Squirrel dreys, on the other hand, are fully enclosed; squirrels typically make the entrance small and flush with a tree ...

Even those of us who embrace winter have been homebound by recent weather, so that outdoor story material has been a challenge to obtain. Snow and extreme cold disrupted school routines, and families ...

One of Charles Darwin's famous 14 finches — the island-dwelling bird species that helped inspire the theory of evolution — the medium tree finch is found only on Floreana, one of the nine major ...

Once again, I found myself sitting outside in my small photo blind trying to capture a handful of images of birds in a winter/snowy setting. The temperatures were a balmy 5 below zero and I was ...