A Greater Roadrunner zoomed into view and hopped atop one of the tee boxes to survey its surroundings. I focused my binoculars to get a better look at the bird, a lifer for me, and that’s when I ...

The Bald Eagle’s undeniable majesty has earned it longtime status as the mascot of the United States, but the bird also has some surprisingly quirky traits, like its dicey aerial courtship routine or ...

After these incredible fliers come thousands of miles to the boreal forest to breed, they rush out and head south again several weeks later. As if breeding, raising chicks, and fattening up for ...

Although adult trogons also eat fruit, “the chicks need insects,” MacFarland says. “And they have to be large insects, like walking sticks, katydids, large grasshoppers, cicadas. If we’re having a ...

Even at age 10, Lili Taylor had an eye for birds. She remembers doodling an advertisement for the birdseed sold at her dad’s hardware store—it featured a despondent-looking creature she dubbed “hungry ...

Here’s what we know.Environmental conditions are changing in the Everglades. This is especially the case in Florida Bay, where 90 percent of Florida’s Roseate Spoonbills once raised their young. But ...

The first week of the second Trump presidency featured a firehose of executive orders targeting climate programs, environmental justice efforts, and much more. One order stood out because it was ...

SYRACUSE, NY – On Tuesday, June 17, the Onondaga Lake Conservation Corps hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of a new native plant and pollinator garden along the West Shore ...

Over 12,000 new plugs have gone into the ground this year, either in areas that weren’t already planted or where there is a good amount of bare ground. This adds up to a total of 177,000 native shrubs ...

A juvenile Bald Eagle soars high above Lowell Young on a sunny day in Yosemite National Park. The sight fills the former longtime president of Yosemite Area Audubon Society with admiration as he peers ...

It wasn’t the seabird carcasses that were unusual. Birds that die at sea frequently wash ashore. On regular surveys to tally bodies from Alaska to Central California, for example, volunteer data ...

Roberto Benavidez was always fascinated by the sculptural arts. One of his earliest memories growing up on a ranch in South Texas was of a cousin picking up a handful of clay from a pasture and ...