“I fell in love with a birder, so my spark bird was a human,” she wrote via email. “A great blue heron has appeared at auspicious moments in my life, many of them, like a poetry prompt that calls out ...

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When I first began bird watching, I had no idea how pervasive birds would become in my life in just a few years. I started ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Assigning spiritual meaning to the presence of certain birds you keep seeing is a practice that dates back thousands of years.

I was putting out my bird feeders a few years ago when I noticed him. A tiny, fluffy baby bird stoically sitting on the seed-covered dirt in my backyard. I didn’t know what to do. Did I pick him up ...