Yachats is the first community on the Pacific Coast to be named a Bird City by the Bird City Network, which has about 300 participating communities in North and South America, according to founders ...

In a sure sign that spring is not far behind, the first purple martins of the year have been spotted in Tennessee.

Habitat loss rarely arrives with drama. As places shrink and split, the colors remain, but the safety net does not. That is the hard truth: beauty does not protect a bird from a bulldozer, smoke, or a ...

In a sure sign that spring is not far behind, the first Purple Martins of the year have been spotted in South Carolina.

Every winter, a marvelous spectacle occurs as hundreds of thousands of butterflies travel south across Taiwan in one of the world’s most rare migrations.

The Monomet Conservation Sciences has released its 2025 State of the Birds report. The report reveals accelerating declines in bird populations across the continent of North America. These declines ...

Many of us develop strong attachments to particular colors, but purple brings out the most focused and enthusiastic devotion. What makes purple so distinctive? Part of the answer comes from optics.

You have seen the big apartment-style birdhouses on tall poles in some folks’ back yards. They are for purple martins, which are the largest swallow, about 7 to 8 inches in length with a wing span of ...

A scary new synthetic drug known as “purple fentanyl” is raising concern in Nebraska — and it is resistant to Narcan. Cops in Omaha are warning the public about the potentially deadly substance, which ...