Hari Krishnan) via Maui Invasive Species Committee Agriculture and wildlife officials are raising concerns after a ...

On a snowy weekend recently, these colorful birds offered a wonderful contrast to the white snow, pale-greenish aspen trunks, snow-laden pine trees and the gray sky. We saw the usual 2 to 3 each ...

I know it is anthropomorphic, and therefore wrong, to think of terns as classier versions of gulls. In the proper scientific sense, class should only be considered in the taxonomic sense. But I have ...

Every December, groups of birders set out to identify and count birds in specified areas as part of a citizen science project ...

Meet the regal western kingbird — a fierce defender of its nest and a bright sight along open fields in the west.

The theory of evolution is dominated by the utilitarian logic of natural selection: adapt or die, survival of the fittest.

One of the loveliest spring-blooming trees on our property is the serviceberry, Amelanchier x grandiflora. It is a cultivar ...

Pudlo Pudlat’s untitled colored pencil on paper drawing of a bird sailing a colorful ... stripe rides on the crest of a green wave, helmed by what looks like a gray and brown bird with a ...

Gray gulls raise ... and it holds its long, spiky crest aloft nearly all the time. The males sing and flaunt their finery from conspicuous perches in early morning. Birds aren’t furry and ...

Come summertime, the notoriously blood-thirsty insects are so big and ubiquitous in Alaska they’re jokingly referred to as the state bird ... corkscrewed into the grey sky.

with black-and-white wings and grey flanks as in Red-breasted Merganser, but with a white neck and the front of the white flanks bordered by two black lines, reminiscent of Smew. The bird had a large ...