Carrion beetles team with maggots to be among the reasons you so rarely find dead birds. This is true even as birds die daily in large numbers. (Half of most bird species don’t live a full year.) ...

I’ve never been a huge fan of noir novels, which tend to leave me a little cold. Urban Waite’s, The Carrion Birds, a tale of a Vietnam vet–slash–criminal enforcer is as muscular and ...

The harsh New Mexican desert is the setting for Seattle writer Urban Waite’s powerful second novel, “The Carrion Birds” (Morrow, 288 pp., $25.99). In their tiny border town, cousins Ray ...

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation has an entire database of birds, and other animals, in Oklahoma. Here is some information from ODWC on the most common birds in the state and where ...