North America’s largest swallow, the purple martin, was hit hard by winter storms in 2021. With erratic weather events ...

Thousands of birds, including beloved purple martins, died in "The Great Texas Freeze" of 2021. A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution led by biologists at the University of Massachusetts ...

Cardinals, blue jays, woodpeckers, and goldfinches will show up fast with sunflower, suet and thistle - but one simple seed swap can send squirrels packing.

University of Michigan study finds noise harms birds' health in many ways, including their ability to reproduce ...

In the newspaper article “Hot Chocolate Walk kicks off Indiana County Decathlon,” published on Feb. 23, Gazette reporter Nathan Zisk correctly reported that I said that the primary cause for ...

I spent a lot of time thinking about the birds and the bees while growing up. I was raised in a rural community as the child ...

Scientists have long focused on rising temperatures to understand how climate change is reshaping the natural world. But ...

Billions of birds that once filled North American skies have disappeared, and new science shows they are disappearing faster than ever.

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Water samples are taken from the Potomac River in Maryland in January. A massive pipe that moves millions of gallons of sewage ruptured and sent wastewater flowing into the Potomac River northwest of ...

In January, part of a decades-old sewer line in Maryland collapsed by the Potomac River. Over the following days, the broken pipe dumped more than 200 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac ...

DELAND, Fla. – A DeLand parrot sanctuary faces mounting utility costs as it struggles to keep more than 100 tropical birds warm during Florida’s unusually cold winter. Patty’s Parrot Palace, a ...