Pine Siskins had descended on Cape Cod’s woodlands, fields, gardens and backyards, and folks were seeing lots of them. Well, most folks were seeing lots of them. I only saw one ...

For the pine siskin — a brown-streaked, yellow-winged migratory songbird with a call often compared to the sound of a piece of paper being torn — salmonella is lethal.

We are seeing an irruption of pine siskins here in New England due to the lack of winter food in their native forests. I have had huge flocks of goldfinches at my feeders since mid-December.

Northland Nature: Pine siskins stay in late winter Retired teacher Larry Weber, of Barnum, is the author of “Butterflies of the North Woods" and “Spiders of the North Woods," among other books.

That is the sound of pine siskins, and I’ve heard them prattling – like a group of excited children calling to each other on the playground – from the tall white pines along my walking route ...

Pine siskins have a willy-nilly migration pattern in which flocks don't typically migrate in predictable patterns to wintering locations. Some years, huge flocks of siskins may descend into Texas.

That is the sound of pine siskins, and I’ve heard them prattling — like a group of excited children calling to each other on the playground — from the tall white pines along my walking route ...

I’ll just get straight to the point … it didn’t happen. Try as I might, I was unable to break the record for the number of bird species observed in my yard. For about a week it looked as though my ...

GRAND FORKS – The pine siskin is another of those wanderers that sometimes show up here and sometimes don’t. This week, siskins showed up. I wanted to report that siskins “swarmed” my ...

Last week, Chenango County resident and Chenango County Bird Club member Michael Foor-Pessin shared a chance bird irruption and sightings of the juvenile Pine Siskins. It has been two decades ...

If you are prone to looking up as you walk (or pedal or drive) among trees, you may have noticed a bumper crop of cones clinging to the highest branches of white pine trees this summer and fall.

A pine siskin that likely crossed Pennsylvania at least once in its amazing journey recently was found more than 2,400 miles from the spot where it was documented at a Maryland banding station.