These lessons were designed to accompany parts three, four, and five of the PBS Life of Birds series. Although this lesson plan was primarily developed for grades 9-12, teachers of elementary or ...

Forty third grade students from Mahan Elementary School, in Norwich, were treated to a bird ecology field trip program at the Audubon Center in Pomfret, on Oct. 25. The program was sponsored by the ...

With so much to learn in such a short time, young birds need to zip through finishing school. A young robin, not quite two weeks old, jumps off a branch and settles on the leaf litter below her nest ...

Now is the season for baby birds, whose births are as miraculous to me as the birth of human babies. How astonishing that a female bird can lay a beautiful oval egg encasing an embryo that develops ...

Albatross and hawks do it. Greater sage grouse and prairie chickens don’t do it. Humans do and don’t do it. Let’s do it, let’s stay monogamous. Or not. We’re all a little birdlike in our varying ...

Birds can teach valuable lessons. Sitting in my upstairs office, I often see feathered friends stopping outside the window ...