A Greater Roadrunner zoomed into view and hopped on top of a tee box to survey its surroundings. I quickly focused my ...

A new push for more oil and gas drilling, mining, and logging threatens irreparable damage to irreplaceable habitats.

Despite their luminescent glow, lightning bugs have remained a conservation mystery until relatively recently. Now ...

The Bald Eagle’s undeniable majesty has earned it longtime status as the mascot of the United States, but the bird also has some surprisingly quirky traits, like its dicey aerial courtship routine or ...

A Comanche-led conservation project takes on an increasingly urgent mission: protecting the birds revered by many tribes ...

For the last few years, conservationists have fought a precedent-setting proposal to send excess water from the basin south ...

Biologists are using the devices to better understand the bird's behavior and, ultimately, what might be driving our most ...

The work of conservation never ends—and neither does the perseverance of people who care.

It is not a remote wilderness or a protected refuge. But it is a place that holds memory, meaning, and connection. And it ...

To witness dazzling displays of migrating hummers on the move, the western United States is the place to be during the warmer ...

Although adult trogons also eat fruit, “the chicks need insects,” MacFarland says. “And they have to be large insects, like walking sticks, katydids, large grasshoppers, cicadas. If we’re having a ...

After these incredible fliers come thousands of miles to the boreal forest to breed, they rush out and head south again several weeks later. As if breeding, raising chicks, and fattening up for ...