A hummingbird’s heart beats over 1,200 times per minute, while the great egret hunts with precision unmatched in shallow ...

Saguaro Park in southeastern Arizona, near Tucson, offers a landscape unlike anything you’ll see elsewhere. The park hosts ...

Get the keys to ID a Townsend's solitaire, a solitary, cheery-singing thrush bird with a sweet tooth for juniper berries.

You’re outside when suddenly you hear an unfamiliar chirp. Looking around, you wonder, “Is it a squirrel?” “Is it a bat?” And ...

There are over 350 species of hummingbirds, but only a little over a dozen visit or stay the U.S. Learning the different ...

They know their time is fleeting, and yet they have one mission: to provide for their next generations. While they consume the nutritious nectar our wild and native plants provide, they are collecting ...

But bird tool use goes far beyond corvids. For instance, green herons use twigs, feathers, insects, or even bread to bait fish. The heron tosses its chosen lure onto the surface of a pond and, as soon ...

There’s a magical place in Missouri where towering pines whisper secrets to the wind, pristine creeks babble over ancient stones, and wildlife roams as if humans are merely temporary guests in their ...

That’s Knob Noster State Park in a nutshell – nearly 4,000 acres of Missouri wilderness that somehow flies under the radar despite being one of the state’s most captivating natural treasures. Let me ...