With its bright golden mantle and jet-black body, it would be hard to mistake the yellow-headed blackbird for any other ...

In late June and early July, groups of yellow-crowned night herons will begin to leave their New Orleans nests. First they ...

A red-capped manakin will moonwalk better than Michael Jackson in a lek of others when it wants to attract a female mate.

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Some birds sport unique-looking crowns, crests, or mohawks. Continue reading to learn more about these birds.  9. Golden ...

A “routine” wildlife survey at a nature reserve in the United Arab Emirates took a turn when a staff member looked up at a ...

That “one and done” refers to a successful nesting of a paired set of plovers, from gestation to fledging. Plovers nest each ...

Plenty of artists have dreamed they could somehow be Van Gogh – only Kiefer has had the bottle to follow through ...

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

The cactus was in full bloom. Yellow blossoms were everywhere in the river valley, sharing the pastures with sagebrush and ...

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

Planting a garden-bean row or a walnut-tree forest rarely means only returning to the scene months or years later to reap ...