Kings Canyon National Park in California is just one of hundreds of shuttered U.S. parks and preserves. (Photo by the National Park Service) If...

As daylight dwindles in the Northern Hemisphere, birds proliferate and then progress out of the frame. October, as Dylan Thomas perceived it, was awash...

Scientific papers are simply boring. That is why they have sections Abstract and Summary, to allow you to read the digested versions and skip...

Common questions I get: “I put out a bird bath and no birds are using it. Why?” or “I have a heated bird bath...

One of the nice things about living in New Zealand and being the beat writer for that place is that I can pretty much...

There are some birds I have not seen in North Carolina because they are very rare. There are some birds I have not seen...

The cahow is one wild and crazy bird. Born in a burrow, it first sees daylight when it is time to fledge, and then...