On a 2009 hike in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona, a group of birders heard an otherworldly, ethereal bird ...

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American white pelicans breed in Canada and migrate to the United States and Mexico during cold months. But studies using ...

Despite conservation efforts, Puerto Rico is still home to 16 species that are considered threatened, endangered, or at risk ...

There is one confirmed and nearly a dozen suspected cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, reported in Johnson ...

Black vultures have killed and eaten several calves on Tom Karr’s cattle ranch in southeastern Ohio, a loss he says didn't happen two decades ago. Now it happens regularly. It’s a problem faced ...

"This action is indeed a significant milestone," said Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn LaTourette, crediting more than 40 years of habitat restoration and monitoring for the ...

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Birds that end up far from home, like the New York common cuckoo, are known as “vagrants.” They’re fairly common during ...

In fact, she notes that peak migration nights can sometimes see 400 million birds fleeing the cold to the southeast. Some of ...

Outrage erupted on the Senate floor this week when one official slammed the Biden-era plan to kill nearly 500,000 owls living ...