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The 21st annual Great Backyard Bird Count is coming up next weekend, with bird watchers recording the birds they see and entering checklists online. T...

Be their Valentine — to benefit historic sites in the Portville area. Members of the Portville Historical and Preservation Society are planning for a ...

I like to think of the Audubon Christmas Count as our “opening day” but unlike the opening day for big game, it doesn’t matter to me whether it’s too ...

Most State & Union readers should be aware that we love our bird sightings — but perhaps not as much as the National Audubon Society. The organization...

If I had to describe winter birding in one word, it would be “flocks.” In the summer, birds go off on their own to locate suitable nesting territory, ...

Our editor — and amateur bird watcher — Jim Eckstrom is always eager to tell us of his sightings. The latest was of a double-breasted cormorant flying...

For the residents on South 13th Street and South 14th Street in Olean it’s been an exciting summer, with a falcon taking up residence in what is proba...

On this day 40 years ago — Aug. 1, 1977 — Seneca Nation of Indians president Calvin E. Lay greeted nearly 500 visitors and guests attending the dedica...

Editor's Note: This column has been amended to clarify that p rairie falcons may be captured and trained by lawfully permitted falconers. I arrived in...

If you feel like spring came and went a little too quickly this year, you’re not alone. I was left wondering what happened to our waves of thru-migran...

I’ll admit to being a little gullible at times, and that makes me the perfect target for an April Fools prank. So when I got home on the morning of Sa...

Our forefathers literally live on within us. Not only genetically, in our appearance, attributes and inclinations, but, deepest of all, in the love an...

I was in my mid-30s before the passion for birding really took hold. And like most passions, it’s probably not a good idea to analyze too deeply why t...

Today’s State & Union gets a little farther afield than usual, but since many readers have noted by now what nature buffs we are, they are likely to u...

As I sit here waiting out the doldrums that arrive between the outward migration of our summer birds and the arrival of our winter birds, I think abou...