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 ...

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

The penguins perished by the thousands for a simple, agonizing reason: a lack of food. In two key colonies off the coast of ...

Several kinds of birds will visit your feeders if you offer them a steady supply of the seed they prefer.

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 ...

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

As the holiday season ramps up, Michigan stands as one of the country’s leading Christmas tree producers. This year, the ...

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

“Hummingbirds and other nectar eaters do not need red dye added to the nectar you make for them,” Parkins says. “That sugar-water recipe is four parts water to one part white granulated sugar. Do not ...

Goetze: Over the past few weeks, I’ve heard and seen some annual winter residents slowly flying and gliding into the area.

That analysis considered not just rabies, but all human deaths related to the loss of vultures — including those from water contaminated by cattle carcasses. Researchers estimated that India suffered, ...

This fall, when Adam Leontowich headed to southeast Saskatchewan to hunt whitetailed deer and ruffed grouse, he once again opted for lead-free ammunition—cartridges with copper bullets for his .308 ...