A Greater Roadrunner zoomed into view and hopped atop one of the tee boxes to survey its surroundings. I focused my ...

Despite their luminescent glow, lightning bugs have remained a conservation mystery until relatively recently. Now ...

A new push for more oil and gas drilling, mining, and logging threatens irreparable damage to irreplaceable habitats.

The Bald Eagle’s undeniable majesty has earned it longtime status as the mascot of the United States, but the bird also has some surprisingly quirky traits, like its dicey aerial courtship routine or ...

For the last few years, conservationists have fought a precedent-setting proposal to send excess water from the basin south to another part of the state. They argue the region has none to spare.

Sia stores hundreds of thousands of feathers from more than 200 species in a warehouse offsite. Rehab groups, zoos, and falconers help maintain the supply. Sia fulfills requests from around 150 tribes ...

After these incredible fliers come thousands of miles to the boreal forest to breed, they rush out and head south again several weeks later. As if breeding, raising chicks, and fattening up for ...

Although adult trogons also eat fruit, “the chicks need insects,” MacFarland says. “And they have to be large insects, like walking sticks, katydids, large grasshoppers, cicadas. If we’re having a ...

Even at age 10, Lili Taylor had an eye for birds. She remembers doodling an advertisement for the birdseed sold at her dad’s hardware store—it featured a despondent-looking creature she dubbed “hungry ...

Here’s what we know.Environmental conditions are changing in the Everglades. This is especially the case in Florida Bay, where 90 percent of Florida’s Roseate Spoonbills once raised their young. But ...

Over 12,000 new plugs have gone into the ground this year, either in areas that weren’t already planted or where there is a good amount of bare ground. This adds up to a total of 177,000 native shrubs ...