The back shows 2 rows of whitish or yellow-buff spots or bars, but this patterning is very limited in northern birds. Adult: red head and breast, pale yellow belly, back black with geographically ...

Minnesota’s state bird is everywhere ... no doubt owing to its bright red feathers. The loon came in a distant fifth, behind the rose-breasted grosbeak, wood duck and mourning dove.

The reason this bird caught their eye was because it is, I think, one of the coolest-looking water ducks around; a red-breasted merganser. Maybe because my formative years were in the 70s ...

The presence of this nuthatch is typically announced by its nasal calls. The red-breasted nuthatch has the un­usual habit of smearing resin around the entrance hole to its nest, presumably to ...

Retired teacher Larry Weber, of Barnum, is the author of “Butterflies of the North Woods" and “Spiders of the North Woods," ...