The Arctic bird typically arrives in Chicago mid- to late December, Warden said. An unusually early arrival may signal an “irruption year,” a migratory boom when large numbers of snowy owls migrate ...

The dual-nation island of Dutch St. Maarten and French St. Martin offers lots of frugal diversions, including vivid street ...

U.S. turkey supplies have fallen to a 40-year low after avian flu and other viruses wiped out millions of birds this fall, tightening hatchery inventories and pushing wholesale turkey prices up 44%, ...

conda create -n smot4sb python=3.11 conda activate smot4sb python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt python3 -m pip install -r requirements_mmdet.txt [FBD dataset ...

There are few definitive ways to determine sex because most birds of prey are identical in their plumage. There are a few exceptions though. Northern Harriers, American Kestrels and Merlins all ...

Big birds live longer than small birds. Albatrosses, with their 10-foot wingspans and beaks the size of an Idaho potato, may live for a hundred years. Wisdom, a Laysan albatross banded in 1956 when ...

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A small bird called the Wilson’s phalarope journeys thousands of miles between California’s Mono Lake and another salt lake in Argentina. The species has inspired connections between scientists and ...

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The most beautiful aspect of the world we live in is the diversity within our animal kingdom. Birds are particularly colorful, many with a unique pattern of markings that makes it hard to believe they ...