The northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon) is a common and widespread nonvenomous snake in North America. These aquatic snakes typically live in and around freshwater bodies — lakes, rivers and ...

The Mussau triller hadn't been spotted since 1979 when a group of birders set eyes on the multicolored cuckooshrike in June, ...

Utah Lake's biodiversity “appeared doomed by an explosion of phragmites, a non-native, deep-rooted reed that spreads through ...

National Estuaries Week, Sept. 21-28, is a celebration of economically and ecologically vital and sensitive ecosystems, and ...

Imagine a place where hundreds of White pelicans flock to their sacred sanctuary and countless redhead ducks congregate in vast numbers joining millions ...

Gobble up interesting tidbits about the wild turkey bird, including how fast wild turkeys can fly and if turkeys hold ...

Using sound recordings, the team identified the largest known population of the night parrot, a secretive species known as ...

An American using the Humprhey-Parkes system would deem the same transition a “prealternate molt,” yielding the tanagers’ “alternate” plumage. (Further complicating the picture, many bird banders ...

The answer isn't entirely straightforward, but as far as experts at NCSU are concerned, it can't hurt to leave your feeders up a bit longer.

Are you an avid bird watcher wanting to know how to identify more birds? Or maybe you love seeing the flying creatures in ...

Long restricted to Florida, the large wading birds have begun popping up across much of the United States and as far north as ...