Despite a wind chill of 18°F with snow swirling, I ventured outside on Tuesday with only an hour of daylight left to deal with the layer of ice-crusted snow burying our motor chariots. Since ...

MINNEAPOLIS — In the 1850s, W.G. Gresham settled one of the earliest claims on Swan Lake, in southern Minnesota, a stone’s ...

Mike Weirich sent photos of tundra swans that have returned to Knotts Island Bay in North Carolina for the winter. Jeff Lewis sent a photo of a large group of redhead ducks and a few tundra swans ...

NICOLLET, Minn. — Ducks were everywhere. Buffeted by a howling south wind and peppered by rain drops, flocks of teal, mallards, wood ducks and redheads crisscrossed the gray sky over Swan Lake. The ...

The Eagles are back in the Super Bowl, and the bald eagles are back to Onondaga Lake. Marcia Bower, an amateur photographer from Syracuse who visits the eagles almost daily, recently counted at least ...

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Manlius, N.Y. — Three people - 18, 16, and 17 years old - who took an adult swan and four baby swans from the Manlius swan pond thought they were ducks, police said. The three killed Faye, the mother ...