Thinking of releasing white doves to commemorate your wedding or the memorial of a loved one? Think twice, and do some research. White doves:...

Here’s something you don’t see all the time. “We had a call one morning about a snake and a hawk,” says Tom Sweets, the...

My friend Ruth, who is from Northern England, has a phrase she uses when her dog bursts into fits of irrational exuberance. “Look at...

What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate. After scrolling through piles of furious emails regarding my recent blog about Rip Van Winkle’s Crow...

I am not anti-hunting. I won’t pick a fight with hunters, as long as they eat what they shoot and don’t use lead ammunition....

“Here’s an idea for a blog,” wrote Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator from Kentucky. “What’s your best misidentification of a bird?” This is a...

Why does this little Screech Owl look so horrified? It’s not because of the color of the carpet, although I was probably wearing the...

I don’t mean people who steal birds. I mean birds who steal, sometimes from people. It’s a sad fact of life: sometimes birds take...