Robin and fox sparrows arrive in the first few days of April. If the weather is extra nice, they may push things and come back a few days early in late March. The first spring robin is a bit of a ...

Red kites, great spotted woodpeckers and pink-footed geese — these are only a few of the success stories, writes Mark Cocker.

The arrival of March brings both people and nature out of their winter hiding spots. When the planet revolves and rotates ...

Every year in September and October, bar-tailed godwits leave the shores of Alaska to travel 13,000 km southward to Australia ...

Have you ever wondered why storks are so famously linked to babies? It's one of those cute legends we all grew up with, but ...

Peregrine falcons have returned to We Energies and Wisconsin Public Service power plants – a sure sign of spring as the birds prepare to lay eggs.

At the end of February, Mary Alice and I took our friends Nancy and Patrick Beebe down to the PA Game Commission’s Middle Creek Wildlife Area to see the snow geese that had stopped to rest and eat ...

How a drifting barrel of eggs may have launched a Marin empire.

A $2 garden in Marion, Illinois with stone arches, a labyrinth, and peaceful ponds. Discover why this colorful space leaves ...

Lynne Schafer Gross and Mark McDermott One day circa 1970, a boy in El Segundo looked up at a telephone pole near his home and saw a hawk perched at ...

Rain or shine, spring is spawning from the Sandy to the sea. Literally and figuratively, thanks to an array of attention-getting signs triggered by an explosively colorful herring show in Yaquina Bay ...