During the late spring and summer, you may have noticed a bird flying around at dawn and dusk catching insects in the air. If it had long, tapered wings with a white stripe across them near the end, ...

These creatures of contradiction aren’t hawks and aren’t the most active at night, but nighthawks are birds worth knowing ...

Trying to get a good photograph of a flying bird can be challenging, but imagine trying to do it at night? I was standing in a dusty desert parking lot late one night. The only illumination was a ...

Editor’s note: This is a monthly article featuring bird species of the Upper Clark Fork River Valley from Butte to Garrison. Author Gary Swant hopes the column will inspire people to take an interest ...