The meadowlark is a common native songbird. It is often seen sitting on a fence post at the edge of a cow pasture. Meadowlarks prefer open fields such as hay fields and brush-hogged fields, where ...

The meadowlark’s reveling song rolls across prairies and fields with a fluted melody, as if singing "spring-of-the-year." Early European settlers gazing over May’s serene meadows in the New World must ...

The meadowlark is a familiar sight throughout the farmlands of the Midwest, most often found living its best life in open grassland habitats such as hayfields or prairies. You also might catch one ...

The meadowlark has been a newsmaker this summer – but not the North Dakota state bird, which is the western meadowlark. The newsmaker is its close relative – almost a twin species – the eastern ...

A group of photographers stood near a stand of deciduous trees wondering whether the chilly wind was rustling winter’s fallen tree leaves scattered over the ground at the Coastal Prairie Conservancy’s ...

There are lots of signs of spring. No one of them is definitive, but taken together they are completely convincing. Probably the most familiar of these signs is the arrival of the western meadowlark, ...