Usually seen here in spring, autumn and winter, common gulls are actually a scarce breeding species here and usually seen on estuaries and wetlands. A common gull is the same size ...

Clear Lake currently has a catch and release, slot fish limit that protects all walleyes measuring between 17 and 22 inches in length.

Birds are among the most intelligent and talkative animals in the entire world. Their babbling, chatty, and loose-lipped mimicry has inspired various stories from across all human cultures. However, ...

A prolific collector of eagle memorabilia realized recently that, while the United States had an official animal (the bison) ...

King cobras are the heavyweight champions of the snake world. These are the largest and longest of any other venomous snake on Earth. This is what makes the king cobra so infamous among snake species, ...

As I write this column the sun is just coming up over Spread Eagle Mountain in Keene Valley. Astronomically speaking, it is just past summer solstice time, so sunrise comes early. I am bleary still ...

This story is a selection from the June/July issue of Air & Space magazine Carla J. Dove is the manager of the Feather Identification Lab at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of ...

Seaside sparrows at Cooks Beach have their own “dialect.” Rowan University researchers monitor their songs as a way to track salt marsh health.

We describe a technique for object detection that uses a combination of global shape descriptors and local point descriptors. Our system is able to represent pose using a global shape descriptor, ...

With The Yellow Birds, filmmaker Alexandre Moors tries to find beauty in the brutality. From a screenplay by David Lowery and R.F.I. Porto and based on the novel by Kevin Powers, the film centers on ...