After graduating college in the 1980s I worked for a short period in Mesa, Ariz. When I arrived, my co-workers told me I was just in time for the snowbird season to start. In my head I pictured some ...

They had to postpone the big Perdido Key "Snowbird Beach Bum Hootenanny" last week, rescheduling it for Thursday because of, and yes, it is ironic, heavy snow. But aren't all those northern snowbirds ...

These tiny tan-and-white birds breed in the Arctic and head south for the winter. They like open fields and coastal areas.

Snowbird, the ski resort near Salt Lake City, sprawls across 2,500 acres and receives an average of 500 inches of snow per year. On the busiest days, thousands of visitors crowd the slopes, filling up ...