Author: Sharon Swaney

This highly successful non-native, alien, invasive species was introduced to North America in 1890 by Eugene Scheifflin whose goal was to transplant all of the birds mentioned in William Shakespeare’s plays. Now our native cavity nesters are paying the price because the Starlings are usurping...

Here is a warbler that nests in North-eastern Ohio. In all the years of John James Audubon’s time of bird study he only saw one! Today on a good day during spring migration several could easily be seen. This bird likes scruffy, brushy, successional habitat....

These colony nesters are the largest herons we have in Ohio. They are hardy souls and some will stick with us all winter if there is some open water to fish in. Most migrate south for better fishing and frogging. They will eat just about...

This owl is primarily a winter resident of Ohio but if the observer is in the right place at the right time it is one of the most easily observed owls as it is the most diurnal of our owls hunting and coursing over open...