They sent back a photo for me to ID of a cool-looking bird riding the swell out in Puget ... one of the coolest-looking water ducks around; a red-breasted merganser. Maybe because my formative ...

State of the Birds Report highlights the urgent need for conservation as North American bird populations continue to fall.

For several decades, waterfowl stood out as a conservation bright spot with duck populations growing nationwide even as many other groups of birds declined in the U.S. But that trend has reversed ...