Nature gives us one incredible surprise after another. If you're a bird lover and have been admiring bluebirds, jays, or barn ...

I've been thinking about blue birds lately. Not just eastern bluebirds, but all four of the mostly blue birds we have in North Carolina. Just as I can't assume they are talking about northern ...

What makes a blue jay blue or a cardinal red? Color, a crucial element in nature, is most evident in the amazing hue and pattern variations in more than 10,000 bird species around the world. How birds ...

The ring-necked pheasant, an introduced species that has declined from its peak population in Pennsylvania in the 1970s to only a couple heavily managed pockets today, is one of the few birds that ...