I frequently get questions from students asking me “What do
ornithologists do?” Well, an ornithologist studies birds, but there is no definite
job description as many ornithologists do not work exclusively with birds. They
may be ecologists, geneticists, wildlife biologists, land managers, teachers,
researchers, outdoor educators, or tour leaders. They may work for federal …

Here is the long-sought answer to the age-old question
“Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” : the egg. Eggs have been around since some of the earliest animals -
like sponges and jellyfish – evolved, about 600 million years ago. Birds have
been around for about 150 million years and chickens …

The most
well known blackbird in the Chico area is the Brewer’s Blackbird. This common
blackbird gets its name from a prominent 19th Century Boston naturalist who
started his professional career as an M.D. with a degree from Harvard
and later developed a passion for birds.  As a teenager he began sharing
his field observations …

         Birds are beginning to start a family
and with the disappearance of orchards and other trees and the replacement of
old wooden fence posts with fiberglass ones, there are fewer sites suitable for
birds to build a nest in. There is one thing we home dwellers can do: provide
habitat. Landscaping …