Identity theft is a serious crime. Birds, to my knowledge, rarely bring legal action against one another, but if they did, there is a...

NPR’s Morning Edition had a story today on researchers’ efforts to record the behavior of New Caledonian Crows. One of the videos can be...

Conjure an image of a 21st century naturalist and you’ll probably envision an intrepid adventurer swaddled in wicking fabrics, shod in state-of-the-art hiking boots,...

for a 25th edition of Circus of the Spineless that celebrates language and invertebrates with equal pleasure.

In all the fuss and frenzy of trying to do a Big Year in New York I’ve been all over the state but when...

Nature, in all its myriad forms and illimitable glory, makes for a mighty enticing blogging topic. In a sense, blogs have become extensions of...

but makes for quality blogging, as evidenced by the fifth edition of Carnival of the Blue at Shifting Baselines.

Rats are responsible for more extinctions than any creature except humans. Biologists in Alaska are trying to extirpate rats from the soon-to-be-inaptly-named Rat Island,...