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 ...

As March peters out and April rushes in with welcome warmth, bright sunshine and, so far, only a bit of rain, the lawns turn brilliant green, forsythia blooms and daffodils spring up along fence and ...

The meadowlark’s reveling song rolls across prairies and fields with a fluted melody, as if singing "spring-of-the-year." Early European settlers gazing over May’s serene meadows in the New World must ...

MINOT, N.D. (AP) - The western meadowlark populations in North Dakota are still declining and its song is being heard less every year. Western meadowlarks are robin-sized yellow breasted birds that ...

The Eastern meadowlark seems to have a flute for voice. Its inimitably sweet melody sounds like the words spring-of-the-year. Yet meadowlarks can sing about 100 varying melodies, each song announcing ...

It was on a trip back from town two weeks ago that I saw what I thought was a meadowlark. No more than a bright, brief flash of yellow out of the corner of my eye, it barreled out of a greening field ...

When I was a tender 5-year-old in Minnesota, my mother taught me that a meadowlark's song can be interpreted as “wash your feet, you fool.” She made me laugh, and I never forgot the name of the bird ...