From familiar garden visitors to countryside characters you’ll hear long before you see, here are eight of the noisiest birds ...

A downy woodpecker is a small black and white bird that visits suet feeders. Listen to their call and see photos of males and females.

Look for a bright red male scarlet tanager in spring and summer. Learn about this songbird's nest, range map, song and more.

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After decades of checking off everyone else's to-do lists, retirement hands you a blank page and whispers, "Now what?"—and that terrifying question might just be the most exciting invitation of your ...

Enter Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park in Freeport, a place so peaceful it should come with a prescription and possibly be ...

Hemlock trees stand like ancient sentinels, and white pines stretch toward the sky with the confidence of species that have been doing this for thousands of years. The forest floor cushions your ...

Have you ever wished you could swim like a fish? How about speak like one? In a paper recently published in the Journal of ...

A baby's babbling may sound like nonsense, but it's actually an extended act of trial-and-error learning. As babies produce ...

With cold weather set to hit the UK, feathered friends need our help and there's one thing you can do this weekend to assist wild bird species even more ...

Fun fact: Almost all owls have eyes that are proportionately large to their heads for increased visibility during low-light hours, but the Great Gray Owl's peepers are especially big—roughly the size ...

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