The ponds also can be home to plants like water lilies and pickerel weed; host wildlife such as small fish, frogs, salamanders and turtles; and attract wading birds including egrets and herons ...

A farm in California where the new H5N9 strain was detected had to kill 119,000 birds after the more common H5N1 strain had been detected earlier. In New York, a farm on Long Island culled 100,000 ...

Birds and snakes share a variety of connections shaped by mimicry, predation, and survival. As we celebrate the Year of the Wood Snake, we explore their fascinating interactions in nature. This Lunar ...

Janet Pearse with “I see you” takes fourth place in the ‘Caught in the Act’ category. The North Coast Courier and PrintWild Ultimate Photo Showdown attracted excellent entries from our ...

For analog photography fun, you can’t beat the best instant cameras. Great for beginners and seasoned photographers alike, their charm is in the vintage prints you get to keep or share.

According to the National Audubon Society, the limpkin is a wading bird with no close relatives. It feeds largely on freshwater apple snails in Florida and southern Georgia, and spends most of its ...

Jeffrey Bernick, 41, in his numerous patterns and prints, was impossible to ignore as he was walking on Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron district of Manhattan on a Saturday in December. Mr. Bernick ...

More than 60 birds suspected of being infected with bird flu were found dead at a Plymouth pond, officials said on Sunday. Highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as H5N1 bird flu ...

NZME Graphic / Jason Oxenham, Doug Sherring, 123RF Three prisons and two Auckland railway stations are using an electromagnetic pulse system to deter birds from landing on roofs. A spokeswoman for ...

It’s only January, but Hamilton-area students hoping to get a job this summer may want to begin applying now, before pickings become slimmer. Many larger organizations, including the city and ...

The sampled birds were necropsied and the ingested plastic items retrieved from organs (ventriculus, digestive tract and crop) were collected, washed, dried, categorized according to their morphology ...

wading in waters only fractions of an inch deep. There they probe in the mud with their bills or flip over wet leaves seeking fallen seeds or hidden invertebrates, as the bird in the photo is doing.