If you are a customer of Verizon Wireless you might be disturbed to find out that Verizon Wireless is sponsoring a pro-mountaintop removal rally...

…at The New Dharma Bums (hat tip to my mom who sent me the link).  And when I say shearwaters galore, well, I mean...

Satisfy your moth mania with an excellent fifth edition of the eminent moth carnival presented by Matthew Sarver, modern naturalist.

The New York Times has a fascinating ten-question quiz that requires one to guess which of a pair of names in the Huambisa language...

That metallic sheen that appears on birds like grackles or hummingbirds?  Not a recent development.  Scientists have examined 40-million-year-old fossils that show iridescent feathers...

A world-renowned bird artist describes his trek through the Sumatran rain forests to find an elusive trogon. Doesn’t that sound cool? You can find...

Gunnison’s Sage-Grouse, a grassland galliform that puts on a serious show during mating season, has lost nearly 90 percent (and counting) of its habitat...

Rat Island, part of the Aleutians in Alaska, had been infested with rats since a Japanese ship wrecked there in the 1700s.  It is...