The American dipper, a drab-looking bird no larger than a robin, is a splashy rarity: a songbird that swims and even walks underwater. This round-bodied gray bird with short wings and a stubby tail is ...

This week I’d like to talk about one of my favorite birds. To me, this bird resembles a person on steroids at the gym doing deep knee bends or a child building their nerve for the first dive into ...

Fishermen see them. Kayakers and rafters see them. Walkers on the recreation path along Gore Creek see them. American dippers are songbirds of clear, cold and fast-running streams and can be spotted ...

I hardly dared to glance at the thermometer in my car as I headed to the North End Trailhead. The peak of afternoon temperatures had passed, and I knew it was only downhill from here. But the ...

This is a good time of year to see one of the toughest predators in North America. There are lots of them around the Alaska town of Cordova, and they like this place for the same reason humans do -- ...

Info: Eighth program in a year-long series about Colorado birds sponsored by Friends of the Loveland Library, “Master of Aquarobics” will cover the many facets of streamside life of a Rocky Mountain ...

On the upper Chena River in the heart of a cold winter, a songbird appeared on a gravel bar next to gurgling water that somehow remained unfrozen in 20-below zero air. Then the bird jumped in, ...

A small songbird popped out of the rushing waters at Big Springs in Island Park. It was rather plain with a slightly brown head, gray body and clownishly short tail. Each time it blinked I saw a flash ...

“He is the mountain streams’ own darling, the humming-bird of blooming waters, loving rocky ripple-slopes and sheets of foam as a bee loves flowers, as a lark loves sunshine and meadows,” he wrote in ...

As fall and winter approach, I have been thinking about birds that overwinter in the Upper Clark Fork Valley. The American dipper is an often overlooked permanent resident of southwest Montana. In the ...

The times they are a changing. Just not fast enough, apparently. As I write this on Earth Day, 2019, I wonder what’s going to happen with our environment in this crucial time. I hope I’m wrong but it ...

A woman visitor came running up to a park ranger and excitedly said, "Ranger, ranger, you have to do something! There is a little gray bird trying to commit suicide!" The ranger remained calm and ...