A striking bird that trills a beautiful song, the western meadowlark seems the ideal feathered friend to spotlight on Mother’s Day. Not only does the bird flash a daffodil-yellow breast emblazoned ...

As March peters out and April rushes in with welcome warmth, bright sunshine and, so far, only a bit of rain, the lawns turn brilliant green, forsythia blooms and daffodils spring up along fence and ...

Two bird species that herald spring mornings in U.S. farm country are like the singing Everly Brothers of yesteryear or the Jonas Brothers of today. They look almost exactly alike and no one can tell ...

The meadowlark’s reveling song rolls across prairies and fields with a fluted melody, as if singing "spring-of-the-year." Early European settlers gazing over May’s serene meadows in the New World must ...

MINOT, N.D. (AP) - The western meadowlark populations in North Dakota are still declining and its song is being heard less every year. Western meadowlarks are robin-sized yellow breasted birds that ...

The Eastern meadowlark seems to have a flute for voice. Its inimitably sweet melody sounds like the words spring-of-the-year. Yet meadowlarks can sing about 100 varying melodies, each song announcing ...

It was on a trip back from town two weeks ago that I saw what I thought was a meadowlark. No more than a bright, brief flash of yellow out of the corner of my eye, it barreled out of a greening field ...