There’s a new rat czar in town. An otherwise majestic great blue heron was spotted devouring a New York City rat Saturday — a stomach-churning chow-down that a witness described as “dinosaurian.” The ...

South Africa’s beleaguered blue swallow has been reclassified from vulnerable to endangered in the latest global update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The intra-African migrant is a ...

Birds, like tattoos, are symbolic. And when people choose a certain feathered friend for their ink, it is impactful. The meaning can give you a unique insight into their spiritual lives. After all, in ...

The general trend in Marin bird migration is for most of winter’s abundant shorebirds and waterfowl to head north each spring, soon replaced by a variety of mostly insect-eating songbirds from Mexico ...

Even though Rhode Island is the smallest state in the country, it has a lot of different habitats, from woods to wetlands, to beaches, to urban and suburban areas. This means the state supports a ...

A 181.7 hectare parcel of land in KwaZulu-Natal’s greater southern Drakensberg region will provide a safe haven for some of the province’s most endangered birds and other species. This after the ...

Last Sunday Fort Wadsworth had an open house as part of National Parks Week and in celebration of the centennial of the National Parks Service. It was a true spring afternoon, a lovely day to be ...