The traveling birdwatcher: Europe’s gloriously strange great bustard (video)
Bigger than a wild turkey with some even crazier mating rituals, the world’s largest flying bird remains rare but accessible in parts of the Continent.
As bald eagles and other raptors recolonize America’s urban areas, will free-ranging chickens and feral cats more frequently appear on their menu?
Savvy birdwatchers know that many avian species, from chickadees to robins, will kick in the tunes during the shorter days of fall.
Bird feeding tips and species expectations for the upcoming migration and looming winter of 2017-18.
Powerful storm sweeping into Ohio Valley later this week.
The white-winged tern, a Eurasian species, spent four days in Tioga County, attracting birders from many states and having a positive economic impact on the community.
Opportunities exist for amateur wildlife watchers to document and report how critters in their area respond to Monday’s celestial event.
Normally found in Florida, Louisiana and Texas, it attracts birders from far and wide to central Pennsylvania.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and Army Corps of Engineers are holding a viewing event Saturday, Aug. 12.
A new proposal has the North Zone duck season opening on Sept. 29, which is a week later than previous seasons.WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thirty-seven million. That’s the increase in the number of waterfowl in the Prairie Pothole Region over the past quarter-century, according to the State of the Birds 2017 report, released Thursday, Aug. 3 by the North American Bird Conservation…
And last fall, the sports authority cut down trees around the flame to make it less attractive to raptors and other birds that like to perch in the area while hunting for prey.
The birds nest in hayfields or cow pastures, and are threatened by changes in agricultural and land use practices.
Bigger than a wild turkey with some even crazier mating rituals, the world’s largest flying bird remains rare but accessible in parts of the Continent.
“Wildlife Drive” traverses wetland, woodland, brushland and farmland habitats, providing visitors ample opportunity for wildlife viewing.
On this day in Massachusetts, “Birding by Ear” gives blind visitors a chance to appreciate birds.
During north-country summers, many songbirds incubate, nest, and hatch their young quickly to take advantage of the short growing season.
A recent trip to the newly accessible Caribbean island reveals cultural amenities, tiny hummingbirds, floating in the Bay of Pigs, and the world’s cutest bird.
Along with “The Biggest Week in American Birding” festival, observers are in northwest Ohio to see birds, primarily the tiny warblers that make the woodlots and marshes near Lake Erie a rest-and-refuel stop on a migratory path that covers thousands of miles from their wintering grounds in the tropics to their nesting areas in the northern forests.
Man’s strategies to attract birds include growing native plants that produce a variety of berries, seeds and nuts.
And in southern Indiana, owl cam is giving viewers a closer look at a brood of rare barn owl hatchlings there.
The Bird-Friendly Neighborhood initiative is among several habitat-enhancement efforts developed by Audubon PA.
With some simple equipment, you can cover ground safely and quickly while monitoring waterfowl and other birds in urban or rural environments.
Migratory birds, their nests and their eggs are protected by the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act and must be left alone. But there are rare times when humans can “intervene.”
Skip the snipe hunts and be amazed at the mysterious mating rituals of a remarkable gamebird, the timberdoodle … “Peent!”
It’s normally seen in Canada and also found in Alaska and the northwest United States.
A study by the U.S. Geological Survey concludes that the size of the shrubs was more critical than the density in determining whether birds would continue in the habitat in the face of climate change.
With the unseasonably warm weather, some migratory bird species already have arrived in the North Country, so adjust your feeders and make adjustments to your house accordingly.