Tennessee is preparing to welcome back a small but striking bird that has been absent from the state for more than 30 years.

Sandhill cranes can be spotted in many states, but in the 1930s their populations had crashed to a few dozen breeding pairs in the eastern U.S. Rsocol/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY When I started ...

In partnership with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, ...

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When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived in my region were nowhere to be found. Some, like the passenger pigeon, ...