Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

Now is the time to start searching for the scissor-tailed flycatcher on its way north from the tropics to spend the summer throughout Oklahoma, and in western Arkansas as well as south central and southwest Missouri. This area includes three…[more]

Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology has set up a couple of web cams on bird nests. One features red-tailed hawks that built a nest on top of an 80-foot tall stadium light, while the other one keeps watch on blue herons…[more]

Warmer temperatures and lack of snow in parts of North America are setting the stage for what could be a most intriguing 15th annual Great Backyard Bird Count, coming up Feb. 17-20. Bird watchers across the U.S. and Canada are…[more]

Do you have a fence with hollow posts made of PVC or metal pipe? What about a metal sign post? Bird experts say these and other open vertical pipes can be death traps for birds and other wildlife.

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Feeding birds in yards enthralls many thousands of Arkansans every winter. When they are ready to move up a notch from using bags of mixed seed from discount stores and groceries, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission suggests, there are…[more]

When winter is in full swing in late January and in February, numbers of Arkansans and their visitors who enjoy the outdoors go looking for eagles. A few decades back, seeing an eagle was rare in the state. Now you…[more]

Hunters and wildlife watchers are urged to help count and identify Arkansas’s wintering swan populations. Karen Rowe, nongame migratory bird program leader with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, said “Numbers of both trumpeter and tundra swans wintering in Arkansas…[more]

Bald eagles, snowy owls and a chance to get outdoors on unseasonably warm winter days drew 3,000 visitors Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 7 and 8, to Eagle Days events at Smithville Lake.

A rare appearance by snowy owls…[more]

Despite a rudimentary knowledge of bird species, I looked forward to participating in a Christmas Bird Count. Here was an opportunity to do something outdoors during a festive season when many people are putting away Christmas decorations, and trying to…[more]

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s Winter Bird Feeder Survey starts Jan. 5 and gives wildlife enthusiasts and their families an exciting way to kick off the New Year. Attracting birds and maintaining backyard feeders for wintering birds is popular…[more]