A Greater Roadrunner zoomed into view and hopped on top of a tee box to survey its surroundings. I quickly focused my ...

A new push for more oil and gas drilling, mining, and logging threatens irreparable damage to irreplaceable habitats.

Despite their luminescent glow, lightning bugs have remained a conservation mystery until relatively recently. Now ...

The increasingly popular gadgets, which take photos of avian visitors, are turning at-home birding into a shared experience.

The Bald Eagle’s undeniable majesty has earned it longtime status as the mascot of the United States, but the bird also has some surprisingly quirky traits, like its dicey aerial courtship routine or ...

For the last few years, conservationists have fought a precedent-setting proposal to send excess water from the basin south ...

The work of conservation never ends—and neither does the perseverance of people who care.

It is not a remote wilderness or a protected refuge. But it is a place that holds memory, meaning, and connection. And it ...

To witness dazzling displays of migrating hummers on the move, the western United States is the place to be during the warmer ...

Learn how to protect these iconic seabirds.Did you know? Black Skimmers live across the Southeast, Gulf Coast, and into South America. Because they nest right on the sand, they are vulnerable to human ...

Over 12,000 new plugs have gone into the ground this year, either in areas that weren’t already planted or where there is a good amount of bare ground. This adds up to a total of 177,000 native shrubs ...

“Birds fly south in the winter.” It’s a phrase so familiar it feels like common sense. But the idea that birds migrate -- let alone where they go and how they get there -- is knowledge hard-won ...