Life is a beak for this shore-footed heron - as it surfs river swells on a broken tree branch. The white bird was seen perched on a makeshift raft of leafy sticks that it found drifting along the ...

It was cold and the wind was blowing hard, but there I was with two friends scanning the whitecaps of Rose Valley Lake, hoping for a fallout of waterfowl and vagrant species. Winter birding in these ...

Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle — the national bird of the United ...

Even those of us who embrace winter have been homebound by recent weather, so that outdoor story material has been a challenge to obtain. Snow and extreme cold disrupted school routines, and families ...

Birds are always up to something, and these entries captured an array of avians doing everything from impaling prey to ...

One bird, a male named Freedom, perched atop a branch in his enclosure at the zoo recently and called out loudly. He was found dangling by a rope, left with an injury that renders him unreleasable ...

February’s cold grip brings harsh conditions for wildlife, but signs of spring emerge as days grow longer and nature slowly ...

On the heels of an actual winter in Central Florida, it appears spring has sprung. Good fishing should follow. And let's ...

A study of a bird perched on the branch of a flowering plant, by Shaykh Zayn al-Din, from the collection of Lady Impey, 1777 ...