MINOT, N.D. (AP) - The western meadowlark populations in North Dakota are still declining and its song is being heard less every year. Western meadowlarks are robin-sized yellow breasted birds that ...

Winter is fading, spring is coming, and birds are singing. The distinctive songs of eastern meadowlarks roll across prairies surrounding our metropolis. The males perch on fence lines, fence poles and ...

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 snow had left the meadow, and it was time for an April blessing. There used to be many natural meadows that dotted our lowlands, the result of fire and flood. Then the settlers came and made more ...

The yellowed winter grasslands yawned like an empty concert hall until the meadowlark began to sing. It was a glorious sound that filled the wilderness silence with lilting notes of energy and joy. It ...