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 ...

A Greater Roadrunner zoomed into view and hopped on top of a tee box to survey its surroundings. I quickly focused my ...

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

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

For the last few years, conservationists have fought a precedent-setting proposal to send excess water from the basin south ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Birds fly south in the winter.” It’s a phrase so familiar it feels like common sense. But the idea that birds migrate -- let alone where they go and how they get there -- is knowledge hard-won ...

It’s a common sight up and down the Pacific Coast: a shimmering, pink-throated Anna’s Hummingbird, slurping up sweet fuel from a nectar feeder. Now, research suggests that feeding hummingbirds—a ...

The early morning light was just beginning to reveal the mountains of Pine Valley as I pulled up to the front gate of Rancho Corta Madera. I was greeted by the chittering of Spotted Towhees in the ...