Ocracoke on the last day of 2025. Photo by Dennis McCunney By Peter Vankevich The birds of Ocracoke proved watcher-friendly for the annual Christmas Bird Count held on Dec. 31. For the second ...

Do All Birds Sing? Before we get started on some of the more in depth questions, it’s a good idea to address some of the ...

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UCLA biologists are developing a tool to predict when deadly Salmonella outbreaks are likely to happen in wild songbird ...

Susan Marsh has reported the final Christmas Bird Count results, a total of species 54 counted, 2,802 total individual birds ...

For decades now, local naturalist Jim Gilbert has been providing his observations of the great outdoors. Here are a few area ...

Once at risk of being wiped out, humpback whales charted a remarkable comeback thanks to their songs. In 1979, National ...

Thanks to singer-songwriter-artist-activist Natalie Merchant, students from one dozen Chicago Public Schools are experiencing ...

The world’s largest garden wildlife survey returns this month, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to watch and ...

Plumes, the French guitar-playing singer, is back, this time treating a group of lemurs at the Lumigny Safari Reserve in ...