Banding birds provides data that helps us understand the movements of birds. Bird banding demonstrations happen at ACNC Saturday mornings in the spring. Photo by Jennifer Schlick If the groundhog sees ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The coldest weather in two years has settled into West Michigan. Our state is caked in snow and ice and temperatures are staying locked in the low 20s and teens. Despite ...

MOLINE, Ill. — Winter is quickly winding down and the days are getting longer. We often look toward animals to determine if the warmer temperatures are here to stay. The robin is a very popular bird ...

When you’re watching a robin on a morning when the temperature is 20 below zero, you start to wonder, has this bird lost its status as a sign of spring? Well, it has, and it hasn’t. Certainly, robins ...

On a recent dreary morning — mist and rain, soggy ground — I dragged out of bed, shuffled off to the kitchen, put a pot on and stared out my window. What I saw changed my world. It was a red, red ...

As it seems we won’t be getting winter this year, I am going to skip ahead to spring. American robins are closely associated with spring in our collective wisdom. We await the first robin of spring, ...

It’s an old adage that most likely refers to the American robin (Turdus Migratorius). This year, I first saw robins in late March, right around the time that maple sap started running. As I write this ...

The American robin has long signaled the arrival of spring, right up there with crocuses poking through dirt and frogs ribbiting at night. But despite the familiar songbird’s reputation for being the ...

Despite a whipping wind that caused a two-hour power outage at Earthplace, the Nature Discovery Center, and the surrounding Westport neighborhood Saturday, the promise of spring was in the air even ...

The robins are back. That means spring, right? Aren't robins the traditional harbinger of spring? Well, yes and no. Yes, they are the traditional harbinger of spring by conventional wisdom, but, no, ...