They stalk ditches, circle neighborhoods and perch on power lines.

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

Elizabeth Dixon spotted a rare rusty-brown whistling duck with its tiny checkered hatchlings trapped by a levee in Lakeview.

The days have warmed up in the Tehachapi Mountains, and there are hotter temperatures into the 90s expected next week, but as ...

Eastern wood-pewees have one of the most peculiar common bird names, named “pewee” because of its song rather than its ...

New footage from a carefully preserved wetland shows an abundance of wildlife, in a project ecologists hope will reveal the beauty of the Murray-Darling Basin.

There have been fewer golden orioles in my garden in France this year: or perhaps, more accurately, I should say that I have heard fewer of them. Their single, slightly melancholy or plaintive ...

Some NBA games are remembered not just for the players on the court, but also for the voices behind the microphone. A great ...

By C.B. Stephenson What is the appropriate thing to say to a conspiracy theorist? Sorry I ever doubted you? You ever feel like the tinfoil-hat crowd is just the ...

As hunters, I think we often surrender the stretch from June to September by figuring it is usually too hot and there is ...

Somewhere right now, a person is carving their initials into a three-hundred-year-old tree and feeling romantic about it.

Football fans around the country can stay in the pub until 05:00 BST as some schools and workplaces get ready for a later ...