HawkFest, a two-day celebration focusing on birds of prey and the annual fall hawk migration, will be landing at Lake Erie Metropark on Sept. 16 and 17 this year. The family-style event is one of the ...

Millions of birds are expected to take flight across the U.S. Saturday night, Sept. 6, as part of their fall migration, according to a nonprofit that tracks bird migrations, although numbers in ...

As the fall bird migration gets underway, bird watchers can track birds in flight across Michigan and the nation as they flock southward each night. The BirdCast Migration Dashboard, a live migration ...

In the coming weeks, Michigan will witness the spectacular migration of one of the oldest bird species in the world. Sandhill cranes are often compared to living dinosaurs, and for good reason: not ...

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On a cool summer morning, as the rays of the rising sun beamed through the trees, accompanied by hoots and screeches of birds of prey and Queen's “Don’t Stop Me Now” blaring from a car, a man takes ...

Question: What do Black Terns, Upland Sandpipers and Piping Plovers have in common? Answer: All are birds that are threatened or endangered according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

Michigan winters are no joke. The cold settles in, the snow sticks around forever, and the world gets quiet in that deep, frozen way unique to the Great Lakes region. But even in the middle of that ...