Birds on Niagara – an annual international birding festival – is set to take place from Thursday, February 12 to Monday, February 16. In advance of the festival, organizers have posted the schedule, ...

On December 20, 2025, Unalaska Island held its 33rd annual Christmas Bird Count, participating in the international Audubon Count that’s been held since the year 1900! Our Unalaska Island count circle ...

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Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the ...

Stacker compiled a list of the most commonly hunted migratory birds in North Carolina using data from a report released by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in August 2025. Duck and goose species are ...

The lesser prairie chicken’s most recent ESA protections separated the species geographically with distinct population segments. The southern population is in parts of New Mexico and Texas, while the ...

Four proposed rules could make it easier to drill for oil or harvest timber in areas where endangered species live. By Maxine Joselow and Catrin Einhorn Maxine Joselow reported from Washington and ...

I awoke the morning of Nov. 10 to our first real taste of winter. A blanket of snow covered the ground, and temperatures were in the mid-20s. Sayonara to the last of the wildflowers, butterflies and ...

President Donald Trump has revived one of the most bizarre false claims from his first presidency and his 2024 campaign: an assertion that Americans are required to show identification to buy ...

Look around the Mississippi flyway this fall, and you may see the greater or lesser scaup ("SKOPP"). Scaups are diving ducks that can fully submerge and swim underwater for food. You will have a ...

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) called former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo the “lesser of two evils” in the New York City mayoral race in a radio appearance Wednesday. “This is a choice for New Yorkers. And, ...

As threats of political violence continue to grow in the United States, a Rocky Hill man is facing criminal charges for repeatedly threatening Connecticut Democratic lawmakers online. Local police in ...