Try your hand at sketching birds in the field. Start by capturing overall posture and shape, then take your time to fill in ...

Native plants provide nectar, berries, seeds, and bugs that fuel birds throughout the year. To support your local food web, ...

Preston Cook’s love of the iconic raptor has led to a collection of 40,000 objects and, now, a quest to finally bring the ...

Over time, some of those dinosaurs sprouted feathers and took to the skies—and while their reptilian cousins died off, those ...

The dark profiles of the Rocky Mountains loom against a star-studded sky. Amy Seglund, a species conservation program manager for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, hikes up a steep trail inlaid with rocks ...

Matt Maier was happy to leave behind the constant chores of a family farm to study business, not agriculture, in college. But a couple of decades later, when Maier had children of his own, a dream of ...

In the coldest months, when birds seem scarce, look to your native conifers. These hardy trees and shrubs are a winter lifeline for birds and other wildlife. Birds feast on evergreen seeds and ...

The killing games were coming to an end. At the turn of the 20th century fewer sportsmen were participating in bygone Christmas Day “side hunts,” competitions in which hunters would split into teams ...

We are already experiencing the serious impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss on birds, people, and our planet. Yet leaders from around the world fell short of taking meaningful action to ...

New birders quickly discover: To find birds, find plants. As the foundation of healthy ecosystems, plants provide birds with food and shelter and support myriad other organisms in complicated webs of ...

In the summer of 2015, dead Common Murres started to wash up along the Alaskan coast. That wasn’t inherently alarming; such die-offs happen occasionally for murres and other seabirds like auklets and ...