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.

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., ...

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.” ...

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

Lookout Fire burned most of a forest in Oregon. What's unfolding in the aftermath could inform the future of other forests ...

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

Raccoons are one of the most successful species in North America. They range all the way from Canada to Panama and are found ...

Typically, male birds have more vivid colours than females. As Charles Darwin first explained, the most colourful males are ...

Attract them to your yard with a hummingbird feeder that stores nectar, or plant flowers such as bee balm, hostas, petunias, ...