Somewhere between Corvallis and Peoria, I fear I might have crossed the line between fancier and fanatic. I was traveling 85 miles from home to a place I didn't know existed, on the chance of seeing - ...

Think of a pyrrhuloxia as a southwestern desert cardinal. The name pyrrhuloxia combines the scientific terms for bullfinches and crossbills. Though not related to those species, the pyrrhuloxia has a ...

Pyrrhuloxia birds look like cardinals; in fact, they are sometimes called the desert cardinal. This species an be found in the Southwest and has the same impressive crest as the northern cardinal. The ...

An hour’s drive took me to where the bird was being seen. During that hour, I kept wondering how a bird like this came to be in a neighborhood off Colfax Avenue just west of downtown Denver. And how ...

JEFF DAVIS PARISH, LA (WVUE) - No one would confuse Jefferson Davis Parish in southwest Louisiana with the deserts of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. But Louisiana Department of Wildlife ...