The football team would have to keep its distance. Construction workers too. Because a rare mama killdeer had settled on the renovated Bowen Field, and wasn’t leaving until her chicks hatched. The ...

I love to go bird watching, but for me it’s really more like bird searching, since I actually spot maybe a third of the birds everyone else on the walk sees. That was the case again on an early ...

Joseph W. Barvir Jr., a retired Sun pressman who enjoyed target shooting, died Monday of a heart attack at his home in New Park, Pa. He was 50. Until retiring on a medical disability in 1997, Mr.

HAMDEN -- The clear whistles of an American robin -- cheerio! cheerio! -- entertained bird enthusiasts recently at East Rock Park. The New Haven Bird Club, in collaboration with the New Haven ...

NEW HAVEN >> After 30 years of bird watching, Dan Barvir can easily identify a juvenile American kestrel, the smallest and most common falcon in North America, as it soars toward Long Island Sound.