Tucked away in the southeastern corner of South Dakota lies a forested paradise that defies everything you thought you knew about the Mount Rushmore State. Newton Hills State Park offers a woodland ...

You probably know a great blue heron when you see it, but what about the green heron or snowy egret? Learn to identify common ...

For years, Eric Schroeder has gathered photographs of local leucistic birds: white (or whitish) woodpeckers, hummingbirds, ...

The type of seed that attracts the widest variety of birds to your feeders is sunflower seed, according to Cornell’s Ornithology Laboratory’s website “All About Birds.” However, not all sunflower seed ...

Foxes have quietly adapted to nearly every corner of North America, from icy tundra to scorching deserts, and even suburban ...

Screech owls are around all year, too, and can sometimes be spotted sitting in a tree hole. Hear these small owls here: ...

Animal conservation experts say they have no idea how the crane-like bird — a wetland species whose natural habitat was previously thought to go as far north as Florida — got here, but they’re ...

The jacana clan are also known as ‘lily trotters’ because of their enormous spidery toes which they spread out on floating ...

For the past few months and continuing through the winter, several species of finches are seeing a very good flight year ...

This year, the multimillion-dollar holiday industry will supply about 2 million fresh trees to the national market.

The first belonged to a long-crested eagle, the sitting female’s signature plumes fluttering in the heat haze. The next was a ...

Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how ...