A hummingbird’s heart beats over 1,200 times per minute, while the great egret hunts with precision unmatched in shallow ...

Bird banding at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary in South Wellfleet is delicate work, more like jewelry repair ...

The fates of 121 nests of Northern Cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis) in south-western Ohio were determined in 1991 and 1992. Success rate was only 15%, estimated by the Mayfield method. All failed ...

But bird tool use goes far beyond corvids. For instance, green herons use twigs, feathers, insects, or even bread to bait fish. The heron tosses its chosen lure onto the surface of a pond and, as soon ...

This past October, nature enthusiast Dyane Oliva was tending to her garden in Coral Springs, Florida, when she noticed a ...

If you love spending time in your garden watching the birds that come to visit, there's one thing you should put out for them, and it's not bird seed.

At the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE), researchers and students are studying how wildlife ...

The giant garter snake is now California’s official state snake. Discover its unique traits and habitat challenges.

Saguaro Park in southeastern Arizona, near Tucson, offers a landscape unlike anything you’ll see elsewhere. The park hosts ...

We moved into our house in 2012. One of the features that drew us to this particular house was the park-like backyard. It’s a ...

Clemson’s football team has struggled to bring metaphorical “Death” to its opponents in the “Valley.” But near the stadium, ...

At this Texas state park, bird lovers get the chance to spot any of the over 300 species that frequent the area and join ...