Charismatic cactus wrens are once again thriving in a nature preserve near Laguna Beach, their whirring, rattling calls ending years of silence for the species. The wrens were transplanted, complete ...

Coastal cactus wrens might be in trouble, but they’re also picky. For two years, the birds, whose populations are crashing on the Orange County coast, ignored the artificial nest platforms erected to ...

Anyone who has heard the tale of the Three Little Pigs knows that the little pig who built his house on rock was the most successful at keeping away a certain canine predator. There just so happens to ...

It was a game of cat and mouse, and this cat was not about to win. I was chasing a cactus wren through a prickly patch of cholla with high hopes of getting a good photo. But the wren just kept darting ...

The other morning, I had just scattered seed for the quail and other ground-feeding birds and filled their watering dish. Amongst the usual finches, quail, thrashers and chickadees, I noticed a bird ...

Armed with rakes and trowels, Dorsey High School students on Saturday traveled to a new state park in Culver City on a daunting conservation mission: to bring back the cactus wren, a bird not seen ...