The backyard of Jacqueline McDonald’s Penticton home is an oasis for numerous species of birds with its trees, wild plants ...

Famously, common cuckoo birds (the kind you might see immortalized on a clock) lay their eggs in other birds’ nests, forcing other birds to raise their young.

Many of the UK’s bird species are in serious decline, largely due to habitat destruction and the collapse of food chains ...

Wild Things columnist Eric Brown is buzzing with enthusiasm about the varied insects to be found during a record sunny spring and the benefits to birds relying on them for food.

Wild Things columnist Eric Brown is buzzing with enthusiasm about the varied insects to be found during a record sunny spring and the benefits to birds relying on them for food. While it awaits a ...

But some birds are total badasses—they swoop down, talons ready, and take on one of nature’s most feared creatures: snakes. That’s right. While most of us would rather run in the opposite direction, ...

If you’re one of the many people hiking though Alabama’s forests this summer, you may want to look for the yellow-billed cuckoo. Good luck. Yellow-billed cuckoos tend to hide, high up in the ...

The framers of the United States Constitution intended to wrest the newly formed nation from the yoke of the British Empire wherein immutable authority was vested in a monarch.

Wild Things columnist Eric Brown is buzzing with enthusiasm about the varied insects to be found during a record sunny spring and the benefits to birds relying on them for food.

Many Native Americans are marking ceremonies like graduations with bald eagle feathers, a form of reverence for the bird they ...

That European cuckoo is the bird of the cuckoo clock with its "kuck'-oo" call. It is also the bird from which the word cuckold is derived for it is parasitic, like our cowbird laying its eggs in ...

At sunset, a flock of chimney swifts flying south will look for a place to roost for the night. When they find a suitable ...