I spent a lot of time thinking about the birds and the bees while growing up. I was raised in a rural community as the child ...

Bee-eater birds are stunningly colorful, but their diet of bees and other insects puts them at odds with humans.

Snakes possess one of the most remarkable feeding adaptations in the animal kingdom, allowing them to swallow prey far larger than their own heads. Their jaws are not truly unhinged but instead ...

Barbara & Dan Gleason Spring is when most birds court, breed and raise young, and they must find — or build — a safe place for eggs and nestlings. Nearly all birds use a nest of some kind, ...

My friend Trip Lamb’s recent photographs from Africa reinforced for me the value of vicarious ecology, which I define as enjoying someone else’s outdoor experiences. Vicarious ecology offers ways to ...

Explore snowy mornings and bird books from field guides to "The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne," celebrating birds, art and centuries of nature observation.

Inside a carefully built nest tucked in a wooden corner, several baby birds stretch their necks and open their bright yellow beaks, eagerly waiting to be fed. Nearby, their mother watches closely ...

Mum and Dad kingfishers go hunting for food in the area where their nest is (in our case the Halswell Quarry and surroundings) and present the nutrients at the entrance of the nest-tunnel (accompanied ...

Get close to the prehistoric reptiles that returned from near extinction to become an emblem of conservation in south Florida ...

Your options were either to have the baby and struggle to pay for it and school in a place where you knew no one, or to ...

An 11-year, $11 million expansion is expected to be completed in May and will allow the staff to care for more than 3400 animals, reptiles and birds a year.

In South Africa’s Greater Kruger, Nkateko Mzimba walks the bush unarmed, protecting wildlife with nothing but resolve. At ...