Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird’s feathers is the result of pigment, not a ...

Unlike humans with our relatively small mouths ... gulp down a fish that’s bigger than its entire head! Cormorants are mainly black with yellow-orange coloring around their faces and bills.

From the elusive Forest Owlet to the flamboyant Indian Roller, here's where to find India's most iconic birds.

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Regulations require plover nests to have a 50-meter setback from people and cars. Hatchlings in the first week after leaving ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

By Harold Brummett Denmark Star Route Joseph and I headed out to my sister’s house to check on a swarm of bees. It was late ...

To see the summer sky is poetry, though never in a book it lie, true poems flee.” – Emily Dickinson Tonight’s the night! At ...

Despite their luminescent glow, lightning bugs have remained a conservation mystery until relatively recently. Now ...

I sit on the front swivel seat of a drift boat gliding across the smooth water of Newton Reservoir. The sun begins to send ...

The secluded wetlands of the Ausable Marsh offer a short hike for birders, nature lovers and anglers to enjoy.

In the span of not-quite four weeks, I’ve transplanted dozens — maybe hundreds — of plants from my parents’ yard to my own.