Double-crested cormorants have been thrilling Chicagoans. Spring migration has reached “high intensity” in Chicago, with more than a million birds on the move overhead nightly. (Patty Wetli ...

They aren’t the flashiest of birds, but they are harbingers of spring in Michigan. Keep your eyes and ears open for red-winged blackbirds, sandhill cranes, Canada geese and turkey vultures.

As temperatures plummet to below zero across Michigan this week, backyard bird enthusiasts who enjoy watching and feeding their feathered visitors may wonder how, or if, they can withstand the ...

A Michigan State University study ... which their environments usually allow for. These individual birds, like the sulfur-crested cockatoo, have longer life spans even though they have smaller ...