Photos: Cold weather brings eagles, other birds to Mississippi River migratory flight path
As winter weather comes down from the north, bringing with it ice along the Mississippi River, eagles, trumpeter swans, and ...
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The Birds I Never Met North America's Extinct Birds
I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around the world, but few of them shed light on those that I would've lived alongside. Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the Birds of ...
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It’s the perfect time of year for some winter birding
It was cold and the wind was blowing hard, but there I was with two friends scanning the whitecaps of Rose Valley Lake, ...
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How humans’ slaughter of the passenger pigeon may have led to Lyme disease and other problems
After darkening the skies of North America for 20,000 years, the passenger pigeon was hunted to extinction. It changed our ...
The Birds’ Guide to Surviving Winter
Wilson’s warblers do not visit feeders, All About Birds reports, but if these tiny insectivores are out of luck in winter in what looks like nowheresville, with not an insect in sight, I can tell you, ...
Cook County birdwatcher spots record number of birds in 2024
Birdwatcher Tarik Shahzad spotted 294 bird species in Cook County in 2024, surpassing the previous milestone by one.
Snowy owls are a treat: ‘I’m getting to see something beautiful that billions of people have never seen.’
It doesn’t matter that the temperature is 19 degrees, the wind is whipping at 20 miles per hour, and the wind chill is 4 ...
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A handful of Canada’s at-risk species have made a comeback. Here’s what they can teach us
There are relatively few species recovery success stories in Canada, especially when stacked against the 5,000 species at ...
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Award Winning Photos Submitted To The Nature’s Best Photography Competition In 2024
Winning images from the Nature's Best Photography Awards 2024 competition. The post Award Winning Photos Submitted To The ...
Here’s looking at shrew: How college students got first-ever photos of elusive California mammal
Three college students found a way to take photos of the Mt. Lyell shrew, which has never been photographed in the 100 years ...
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2 mountaineers, 2 names for North America’s tallest mountain
Two different mountain climbers, two different approaches to the tallest mountain in Alaska. People present as a ...