My son and his fiancé were out in Seattle during Winter Break (we are all teachers). They sent back a photo for me to ID of a cool-looking bird riding the swell out in Puget Sound. I had just come ...

In my last column, I posed a question that went something like this, “when is a duck not a duck.” The answer is when it is a merganser. Then I wrote about the common merganser, which is a member of ...

A wild red-breasted merganser found in Milwaukee County tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza. The bird was one of 21 birds taken in by the Wisconsin Humane Society's Wildlife ...