A federally licensed bird bander named Alexander Lauber installed a wooden owl box in a cherry tree in my backyard. Owl boxes re-create the tree cavities where owls nest in nature.

A summer of birdwatching reveals nesting mysteries, territorial truce, and daily song as local species — from phoebes to ...

Macroom Tidy Towns volunteers have been out and about during recent weeks undertaking much-needed weeding and a general clean ...

Few people pay much attention to woodpeckers. Either they are just things that live out there, or they are homewreckers.

It doesn't take a safari or a remote jungle trek to witness wild animals in their natural settings. Across the U.S., ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator bordered by the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in ...

The club is led by Chris Rimmer, director emeritus of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, which serves as the club’s institutional home.

Birds, for the most part, do not live in nests. These complex structures, sometimes meticulously assembled for more than a month, tend to be used for the express purposes of incubating eggs and ...

I was kind of offended on the alligator’s behalf with the way they talk about them,” she said. “I don’t think the alligator wants its name attached to the word Alcatraz.” ...

Lookout Fire burned most of a forest in Oregon. What's unfolding in the aftermath could inform the future of other forests burned as wildfire becomes fiercer and more frequent.

The Earth is full of remarkable species, and the wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) is certainly one of them. This small ...

Take a final look at Tom Sawyer Island at Magic Kingdom, which is closing permanently to make way for a "Cars" expansion to ...