David Carr highlights the birds, mammals and marine life you might see on vacation from the mountains to the coast.

While some birds possess drab, plain-looking feathers, others sport brightly-colored feathers. Females typically appear less colorful than males, an adaptation that helps protect them from predators.

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator ...

Learn about the eyelash palm-pitviper of Costa Rica, a vividly colored venomous snake with unique “eyelash” scales.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Two rare coastal birds, the Piping Plover and the Brown Booby, are expected to be in Central Texas this July.

The photo of a courageous mother lemur with a baby on her back, taking a harrowing jump in a ravine, won the California ...

Photographing birds is both challenging and rewarding. For starters, they like to move around a lot. What's more, birds aren't always in the most convenient of locations—out on a lake, high up in a ...