To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, ...

Great Black-backed Gull . The plumage of juvenile and immature great black-backed gulls initially has a complex pattern of ...

Last week was National Pollinator Week, which celebrates the importance of insects, birds and other animals that pollinate ...

Northern cardinals, blue jays, American robins, and house sparrows are common birds in North American cities. These small, ...

Solomon Islands is the Pacific region's largest legal commercial exporter of wildlife for the exotic pet trade - a ...

Descending onto the causeway at Bigbury beach, I sat myself down on the small dry triangle of sand untouched by the latest ...

Distinctive long beaks and lunch-storing pouches suggest a creature belonging oceanside rather than on a vast prairie. Yet, Google confirms that indeed, Reed Lake, among a few other salt lakes in the ...

The birds, famous for their distinctive "poor, bob-white" morning calls, had nearly vanished from Maryland after declining ...

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

Nevertheless, nature still has the ability to surprise us. Take the shoebill, for example: a bird so bizarre, it almost ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

Perennials are plants and flowers that grow and bloom over the spring and summer, die every autumn and winter and then grow back in the spring. Jackson said there are some perennials ideal for ...