Laura Erickson's For The Birds

Birds use song, not fences, walls, or flags, to mark off their territories, and never send anyone else off to fight their battles. (I'm using Lang Elliott's Mourning Dove recording to open and close this one because in 1998, Michigan declared the Mourning Dove its official Bird of Peace.

Starting the first day Laura started birding, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has been her most valuable and beloved ornithological resource.

Laura got some photos of this gorgeous little sparrow at the Bog last week, reminding her of the first time she ever saw one.

One of the rarest birds seen in the Lower-48, a Ross's Gull turned up last week at Wisconsin Point.

REGI, the state-of-the-art bird rehab clinic in Antigo, Wisconsin, has been admitting hummingbirds covered in grape jelly. Jelly is apparently just too dangerous to feed birds.

One of Laura's friends gave her yet another reason to love robins.

When we set out for a day of birding, we never know what we're going to get, but even when there aren't many birds, the ones we do see can be pretty sweet.

Helping birds requires us to attack more than one issue at a time.

It took mainstream conservation biologists decades to notice how dangerous collisions with windows are for birds.

On May 25, Laura took her grandson on a long bird walk, but they saw a lot more than birds.