Marcia Davis

This year, for the first time, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded Tennessee one permit allowing the trapping of one peregrine falcon for use in falconry.

When Dean Edwards of Knoxville noticed a flock of birds swirling around a small retention pond on Middlebrook Pike about 9 p.m. on July 17, he detoured into the Food City parking lot to investigate.

The routine late spring to early summer shortage of hummingbirds at hummer feeders is ending when it ends every year - in the weeks following the 4th of July.

Will and Mary Owens of Knox County enjoy watching the fascinating feeding behavior at their bird-feeding table - the top of a two-foot-tall, two-foot-wide stump about 25 feet from the house.

Nomination for inclusion on the Federal Endangered Species List is definitely not a feather in the golden cap of the golden-winged warbler.

Late June may seem a little early for birds in flocks to visit bird feeders. But not if the birds are common grackles.

"In the Great Smokies there is a very large bird that resembles the Joe-re which always sings about 4 O'Clock or just before the day begins at dawn. We people call him the Morning Bird. I always rise at the ...

In the competition for desirable nest sites in natural tree cavities and birdhouses, native cavity-nesting birds like red-headed woodpeckers, eastern bluebirds, Carolina chickadees and tufted titmice seldom win fights with non-native European starlings.

Maureen Benavides of Seymour phoned for help identifying a swallow-like, black, gray and white bird with a white band across the tip of its black tail.

April 27 was a terrible night to be a bird.At least 52 tornadoes touched down in East Tennessee and southwest Virginia. Heavy hail stones - some as large as golf balls and tangerines - pounded everything. The ground was covered ...

No matter what you call it - teeter-tail, teeter-peep, teeter-bob, teeter-snipe, jerk-bird or tip-tail - the spotted sandpiper is one of Tennessee's best-known shorebirds.

Go wild, go birding!That's the theme of 2011's International Migratory Bird Day celebrated annually the second Saturday in May - May 14 this year. The focus is on reaching out to involve new youth and adults in learning about birds, ...

When birdwatching, you don't always find your target birds on your first (or even your second or third) attempt. However, missing a few birds doesn't spoil the fun of a journey to bird habitats you've never explored.

Imagine you're a Blackburnian warbler migrating from wintering grounds in northern South America to nesting grounds in an evergreen coniferous forest in eastern Canada, New England or the high elevations of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

"The most remarkable feat of the Crow, is the nicety with which it, like the Jay, pierces an egg with its bill, in order to carry it off, and eat it with security. In this manner I have seen it ...