An additional two birds joined the single bird after their nest failed in Canada, officials said. Initially, one piping plover was spotted on the Lake Ontario shoreline in Oswego County.

The birds are native to northern Ontario and Manitoba, but a lack of food is driving them out of their usual range. Every 10 years, a cyclical shortage of voles and mice brings the great grey owls ...

They also search for signs of nesting activity — anything from the mere presence of a bird in its nesting habitat in nesting season to visible nests or fledglings or other types of evidence.

Parents use small trails and runways to access their nests. Similarly, the Northern Bobwhite locates its nest in a well vegetated area and begins by excavating a shallow depression which is next ...

Northern Ontario is not the only place where wildlife can be seen. A few years ago, my mom, who lives in Oshawa, attempted to ...

Evening grosbeaks – northern finches that move south only when forest crops fail in Ontario and northeastern Canada – are being spotted throughout Pennsylvania, from north of Pittsburgh to ...

Retired Ontario police officer Kevin Nelson was looking for red-tailed hawks to photograph. As he swung his camera skyward, what came into focus was much more spectacular. “When I looked up I ...