Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets ...

Fresh water is important to terrestrial life and anywhere it is seen in large quantities such as rivers, lakes even man-made ...

In 1987, wildlife veterinarian Mark Pokras was in his office at Tufts University in Massachusetts when a colleague from New ...

Some birds are hard to find due to migration patterns, climate preferences, or breeding schedules, but you could spot a rare ...

Your kids might think that birds simply disappear for the winter. But plenty of species don’t actually migrate south during the cold months; others might be making your neighborhood their winter home.

This article appeared as ‘The Memory Of Fields’ in Outlook’s 30th anniversary double issue ‘Party is Elsewhere’ dated January ...

The tallies a group of local birders kept Dec. 16 were part of a wider, ongoing effort to get a census count on bird species ...

From Panhandle sandbars to mossy central Florida tunnels and mangrove channels on the Gulf, this set of hidden water trails ...

Discover which species star in “The 12 Days of Christmas,” how they live, and whether they’d enjoy life as unusual holiday gifts.

South Florida researchers warn the Everglades face an Asian swamp eel invasion, depleting small fish and starving wading birds, threatening the wetland food web.

Ghassan Zaqtan's ‘An Old Carriage with Curtains’ concludes a landmark Palestinian trilogy, tracing memory, displacement and ...

There was a saying that wherever it rained in Cyprus, it would also rain in Kornos. And it did. Until a fire practically wiped the forest off the map. I know this because I live just down the road. In ...