Nearly 150 birds in North America are named after people ... in Central Park involving a black birdwatcher. Gay black comic-book writer Christian Cooper was birding in the park, saw a dog off ...

(SALON) -- There's a moment in "Agnes of Iowa," one of the stories in Lorrie Moore's radiant new collection, "Birds of America," in which the title character recalls the good humor that prevailed ...

What used to be relegated as a hobby for your local retiree has increasingly become a beloved interest for many – birding seems to be more popular than ever. Perhaps it is due to the increasing ...

II. The silhouette of a teenager slumps, head bowed, before an enormous desk with a “Guidance Counselor” nameplate. “You ...

Birds adapt to climate change by breeding earlier, moving north, and shifting altitudes. However, their pace of adaptation ...

Any good outdoors store likely has a copy of the Seattle-born bible of mountaineering. With that seminal text, Mountaineers ...

North Carolina ... Sedaris, an American humorist, comedian and author, was born in Johnson City, New York and moved to ...

Roberta Bondar knew that she would not be able to hear birds, let alone seen them from space, but when she really thought ...

In a new book, a curator at England’s Natural History Museum ... to receive conservation funding from Western initiatives, ...

That’s enough liquid to completely cover both North and South America under a foot of water ... wanted the sturdy turkey to be our national bird instead of the majestic bald eagle.

Fall butterflies should abound in the Houston area this season because the rains of August have enabled flowering plants to ...