Here is a look at five bird species that build some of the world’s most unusual nests, ranging from clay ovens to woven ...

Evening grosbeaks, once abundant in North America, face steep population declines but thrive when spruce budworms are ...

During excavations at a Late Natufian settlement near the Sea of Galilee in Israel, archaeologists uncovered a tiny clay ...

In a remarkable discovery that bridges the ancient and modern understanding of human imagination, archaeologists have unearthed a 12,000-year-old clay figurine from northern Israel that represents the ...

Bird banding at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary in South Wellfleet is delicate work, more like jewelry repair ...

Have you noticed that there is a bumper crop of cones on most of our conifers? The importance of this is that our deciduous ...

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change has spotted a female warbler bird hiding on a ghaf tree in one of the country’s wilderness areas, as part of its ongoing efforts to monitor biodiversity ...

Not many people in the islands know what a northern shrike is, and even fewer know how it hunts or have come across the impaled victims of these merciless predatory songbirds. Lopez Island Youth ...

The loons have been singing all morning, and though Lars and I started the day with good intentions at our work — Lars pounding his chisel on his latest timber frame and me tapping on my computer — we ...

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Scientists just recently decided to study female birds. What they found astounded them. Some female birds, like the two red-legged honeycreepers (Cyanerpes cyaneus) pictured above in Costa Rica, have ...

Minnesota’s state bird is everywhere: There are loons on license plates and library cards, at lottery counters, and now even on the official state seal. Fireplace mantels across the state sport carved ...