North Carolina’s most common hummingbird — the Ruby-throated hummingbird — is slated to make an appearance in a few weeks, ...

For several decades, waterfowl stood out as a conservation bright spot with duck populations growing nationwide even as many ...

Shirley Mast, of Lancaster, seconds Carl’s suet suggestion. It helped attract to her city yard the ruby-crowned kinglet that ...

Users of the iNaturalist app - scientists and park staff but also visitors and even kids - have logged 6,939 species in the Great Smoky Mountains.

"We can't quite believe this incredible footage captured earlier this month — not one, not two, but three bitterns are all on ...

Researchers worked with the Army Corps of Engineers to lower the water level in Red Rock reservoir a foot and a half so the ...

Even someone who has never used iNaturalist before and has no experience with species identification can contribute. Photos can be taken ... flowers, birds during migration, caterpillars, things ...

March might be coming in like that proverbial lion with spring not officially arriving for another two weeks on March 20, but ...

In March of 1975, an extremely rare Ross's Gull was confirmed for the first time in the Lower 48. The sighting and the frenzy ...

State officials have wrestled with the Salton Sea's deteriorating condition as its water becomes fouler and its footprint ...

The American Woodcock (Scolopax minor), a.k.a. Timberdoodle, is a migratory game bird in the shorebird family Scolopacidae.

The species is now protected ... and helps us to understand its place in the world,” writes Noah Strycker in Birds of the Photo Ark. A sparrow’s sturdy triangular beak packs the power to ...