In empirical terms, the male northern cardinal is a spectacular bird. Flaming red with a punker’s crest on top of its head, a ...

More than 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, much of northern Illinois outside Chicago—including what is ...

Community-based research led by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation offers insight into how colonization has impacted the waters around ...

This loyalty to home territory resonates with American values of steadfastness and commitment. The northern cardinal has been selected as the state bird for seven states—Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, ...

Songbirds like this Northern Cardinal require a reliable source of water for drinking and bathing which is essential to their health and survival. Besides being thoroughly entertaining, bathing ...

Living in northern cardinal habitat is new to me. The bird’s established range extends only about as far west as the prairie town where I now live.

FARGO — Northern Cardinals, with their cheerful, "What Cheer!" song, are one of the most striking songbirds in our area. The males are bright red (cardinal, really!) and the females are a muted ...

West Coast counties joined with forest product companies Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s designation of critical habitat for the threatened northern spotted owl. Four ...

BATH TOWNSHIP, MI – A yellow northern cardinal is a rare thing and Michigan’s got one. Michiganders Arlene and John McDaniel have been backyard birders for nearly four decades and just before ...

Even with the name of Northern Cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis, the beloved red bird is quintessentially a Southeastern native whose habitat now extends from Florida to southern Canada and west to ...