The other morning, I had just scattered seed for the quail and other ground-feeding birds and filled their watering dish. Amongst the usual finches, quail, thrashers and chickadees, I noticed a bird ...

My name is: Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus, but I also answer to cactus wren. I'm the best-known wren in these parts, and I'm Arizona's state bird. I break the rules: Most wrens are small and plain, ...

Lately I have been a “peeping Tom” in a nearby eco-reserve, monitoring the breeding behavior of coastal cactus wrens, a bird whose population is in steep decline throughout Southern California. The ...

Researchers from UMass Amherst, the U.S. Forest Service and Arizona State University studied bird diversity and other variables in the Phoenix metropolitan area, and found that though bird abundance ...