Sure, a meadowlark will sing loudly from a fencepost, but finding most grassland birds is like searching for a needle in a haystack—except you’re looking for the needle before the hay has been ...

Another project is on Western Meadowlark our state bird.” Since 2022 ... people don’t see meadowlarks like they used to,” said Johnson. “Long-billed curlews are doing okay.

A bird of the prairie and countryside, the western meadowlark releases songs synonymous with spring grasslands flush with ...

The dapper black and yellow bobolink likes the Chicago area so much he flies here every spring from South America—a journey ...