Gulls are often seen as intruders in our daily lives. But researchers are discovering what really motivates them—and ...

Common Loons are known for forming strong long term pair bonds and returning to the same nesting lake year after year. These ...

Or you saw it fake an injury as it limped across a gravel parking lot. Then you might have wondered, what’s a stilt-legged shorebird doing in a parking lot? Now is the time to start looking out for ...

Famous for stomping venomous snakes, the secretary bird has become a new climate early-warning system for the African grassland.

Condors A0 and A1 — also known as Ney-gem’ ‘Ne-chween-kah and Hlow Hoo-let, respectively — are slightly older than the rest ...

Tribal biologists in northern California say two critically endangered California condors could be tending an egg which would produce the region’s first fledgling in more than 100 years.

My friend Trip Lamb’s recent photographs from Africa reinforced for me the value of vicarious ecology, which I define as enjoying someone else’s outdoor experiences. Vicarious ecology offers ways to ...

The arrival of March brings early signs of spring, indicated by changes in bird behavior. Birds such as Horned Larks, Cardinals, and House Finches begin singing and pairing off for nesting season.

In a study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, researchers Dr. Giovanna M. X. Paixão and her colleagues ...

It’s a cold, foggy February morning, and Bev LaBelle is on the hunt for hummingbirds. Walking along a trail in Southeast Portland’s Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge, she pauses as a flicker of movement ...