A striking bird that trills a beautiful song, the western meadowlark seems the ideal feathered friend to spotlight on Mother’s Day. Not only does the bird flash a daffodil-yellow breast emblazoned ...

Three Willamette Valley wetlands are being restored as part of a broad effort to attract the Western meadowlark back to its historic breeding ground. The Institute for Applied Ecology project includes ...

A western meadowlark perches on sagebrush at Antelope Island. He’s watchful and silent, and looks like a chubby finial with more horizontal to his posture than vertical.? Western meadowlarks are ...

This bird's song transports me to a very special time and place. Are there any birdsongs that have this effect on you? Western meadowlark, Sturnella neglecta, photographed at Attwater Wildlife Refuge, ...

A few years ago on a Sunday drive near the edge of West Fargo, creeping along with no particular route in mind, one of my kids let out the proverbial: "Look." Instinctively I took my foot of the ...

As I wrote last week, the western meadowlark is the most commonly reported bird in Idaho and Nevada. It has achieved the status of the “state bird” in six states — Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North ...

It is with good reason that the western meadowlark is the state bird in Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Wyoming and Oregon. It is a gorgeous bird with a beautiful song. (Only the northern ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — On warm days in February, the shrub steppe suddenly comes alive with the magical song of the western meadowlark. Indeed, its far-carrying bubbly notes are one of the easiest bird songs ...