The increasingly popular gadgets, which take photos of avian visitors, are turning at-home birding into a shared experience.

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 ...

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 ...

In May, Alaska is still breaking free of winter’s last grip, and it seems like summer will never come. However, a remarkable transformation happens almost in an instant. In the span of just a couple ...

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

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

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

To witness dazzling displays of migrating hummers on the move, the western United States is the place to be during the warmer ...

The work of conservation never ends—and neither does the perseverance of people who care.

It is not a remote wilderness or a protected refuge. But it is a place that holds memory, meaning, and connection. And it ...

Biologists are using the devices to better understand the bird's behavior and, ultimately, what might be driving our most ...