Their huge wings allow them to glide on air currents while expending minimal energy, enabling them to spend long periods at sea. They feed on fish, squid, and krill, and can even drink salty seawater.

Piping plovers have made a remarkable recovery in Massachusetts. But the tiny, threatened shorebird is declining in other ...

One year, a sparrow built a nest under the nets over the strawberries. She mastered getting in and out and obviously enjoyed ...

This edition of the Happy Homestead talks about raising your own laying hens from hatching all the way up to full grown hens ...

The Great Lakes piping plover recovery effort has been ongoing since the mid-1980s when the population got as low as a dozen ...

New research reveals the impact of discarded plastic materials on young birds—with chicks dying after becoming entangled in ...

A young eaglet can gain as much as 170 grams (six ounces) per day — the fastest growth rate of any bird in North America.

Spectacled Weavers often build very long nest entry tunnels which hang below the nest. These can be up to 60cm long in some cases. The longer the tunnel the more protection the eggs and chicks have ...

A CLOSED canal bridge will remain shut until at least August due to nesting swallows. Parkend Swing Bridge, near Moreton Valence, was closed on April 25 after a safety inspector deemed the bridge ...

For eastern phoebes, a single nest requires so much incubating that splitting up the effort is almost sure to fail.

The osprey is in decline in one of its key territories and some scientists blame overfishing of menhaden, an important food for the birds ...

Park ranger William McDonald was doing his usual rounds at Blue Lake Regional Park in April when something caught his eye.