For some social birds, raising their young or finding food is a group effort. Learn more about cooperative bird behavior.

But for me the encounter was profound. And I would like to imagine that this swallow – bound so fleetingly to me – is still alive.

DEAR JOAN: We have an opossum living at the base of a shrub in our side yard. We generally don’t go near there, only when we ...

Volunteers are celebrating a rise in their local barn owl population. Tees Valley Wildlife Trust said in 2025, the area it ...

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The Town of Mount Jackson has announced $75,000 in business-grant awards for seven local entrepreneurs, marking the second round of funding through its Mount Jackson Five program.

Mourning doves are common birds in Minnesota and elsewhere, sometimes even sticking around the entire winter and visiting our wintertime birdfeeders. Mourning doves breed and nest in parts of the ...

Permits have been filed for the construction of a 3-story residential building with six housing units at 581 Van Nest Ave. in the Van Nest neighborhood of the Bronx. The proposed building would be 30 ...

Did you know that a mourning dove has 2,635 feathers? I found that statistic in a book written by John Madson, entitled “The Mourning Dove.” Madson is gone now, but he was a top-notch outdoor writer, ...