A water rail's voice is the easiest way to identify this secretive bird — it's a loud grunting/squealing pig-like call from a ...

Puffins have a black body and a white chest, which is a recipe for blown highlights. Minimise this by always shooting in RAW to give yourself more latitude and possibly tweak the exposure compensation ...

Northern cardinals, blue jays, American robins, and house sparrows are common birds throughout city life. These small, ...

Barred owls work well in suburbia and park settings, with clear paths to swoop down on unsuspecting rats and squirrels.

A conservation team unloads biodegradable wave breaks from a boat on May 27, 2025. The cement jute wave breaks designed for ...

You might think that herring gulls are everywhere, and that there are too many of them. However, the species is declining ...

Storytelling is like weaving, with words serving as the fabric. Sometimes I take one thread and weave it into a full story.

That’s the sound of the great blue heron, a wetland bird native to the Pacific Northwest. The downtown heronry, or nesting colony, is back. Perched high in the trees next to the Fish and Wildlife ...

When Slater Mill opened in 1793, it signaled the eventual demise of river herring and other migratory fish in the Blackstone ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

One day as I worked at my home computer about two months into the COVID-19 shutdown, I became aware of a frantic robin flitting in and out of my front porch, carrying a beak full of twigs and straw.