Five writers offer a collection of poetry to welcome spring and, with it, light and hope during uncertain times.

If you happen to have an old tomato trellis, you can weigh it down in a large pot and top it with a Dollar Tree pot trolley to make a bird bath.

Even in urban environments, where our sense of ecological place is obscured by concrete and steel, we are hard-wired to seek ...

Looking out of the kitchen window through the rain, I began to notice the birds coming to the feeder my mum kept stocked with shelled peanuts. They were colorful and acrobatic, but what were they? I ...

In 1956, when he was 16, he started an annual Christmas bird count in Freeport, south of Houston. He kept the yearly tradition going through college and, later, while working as a political ...

Each spring and fall evening, having outfitted another Swainson’s Thrush with a tiny radio transmitter, Wikelski drove like a “tornado chaser,” staying close enough to record the bird’s heartbeat, ...

Artist Rosalie Haizlett likes to zoom in on the small and overlooked wonders of nature—tiny fungi, delicate plants, or, in this case, feathers of common birds. In “Wildwing Triptych,” she trains her ...

Image via Unsplash Citizen science initiatives allow individuals to contribute to bird monitoring efforts. Programs like the Audubon Christmas Bird Count and eBird provide valuable data that help ...

DuBois- The December 14, 2024 DuBois Christmas Bird Count (CBC) tallied 61 species, which is the second highest species count in the 36-year DuBois Count history. The highest number previously ...

Sophie Thatcher, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Courtney Eaton, Samantha Hanratty, Sophie Nelisse, and Liv Hewson of 'Yellowjackets' takes turns reading extremely complimentary tweets to each other in a very ...

(Phyllis Carlson photo) A tufted titmouse was a new bird recorded during the annual Christmas Bird Count in the Iron Mountain area Dec. 17. This one has been visiting a backyard feeder in the ...

The Christmas Island frigatebird is the ninth most evolutionary distinct and globally endangered bird in the world. Australia shares this bird with Indonesia. Christmas Island is its home and the only ...