The Bald Eagle’s undeniable majesty has earned it longtime status as the mascot of the United States, but the bird also has ...

A Greater Roadrunner zoomed into view and hopped atop one of the tee boxes to survey its surroundings. I focused my binoculars to get a better look at the bird, a lifer for me, and that’s when I ...

The first week of the second Trump presidency featured a firehose of executive orders targeting climate programs, environmental justice efforts, and much more. One order stood out because it was ...

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 ...

Despite their luminescent glow, lightning bugs have remained a conservation mystery until relatively recently. Now researchers are relying on community science to track the beloved beetles.

Sia stores hundreds of thousands of feathers from more than 200 species in a warehouse offsite. Rehab groups, zoos, and falconers help maintain the supply. Sia fulfills requests from around 150 tribes ...

Though I moved away from my home state 30 years ago, I still miss the noise of a Georgia backyard. We’ve got plenty of bird sounds to enjoy here in Oregon, but come spring, I find myself dialing up my ...

There’s encouraging evidence, though, that restoring habitat can help Piping Plovers thrive even in places that were once degraded. As soon as state and federal partners removed invasive plants and ...

It wasn’t the seabird carcasses that were unusual. Birds that die at sea frequently wash ashore. On regular surveys to tally bodies from Alaska to Central California, for example, volunteer data ...

Standing six feet high at the shoulder and weighing as much as 2,400 pounds, an American bison is a force of nature on its own. In a herd? “They’re ecosystem engineers,” says Jason Baldes, tribal ...

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 ...

Support hummingbirds with these nectar-rich plants.One of the best ways to attract hummingbirds to your landscape is to add native plants that are rich in nectar and bloom during different parts of ...