DECADES. IF A CANARY IN A COAL MINE IS THE ARCHETYPICAL PORTENT OF IMPENDING PERIL, WELL, DON’T SLEEP ON THE AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER OR THE PIPING PLOVER. YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A LOT OF SPECIES THESE ...

For more than a century, the Bird Banding Laboratory has placed small metallic bands on the legs of birds across North America. Each year, the lab receives thousands of reports from bird watchers and ...

LITTLE ROCK — There’s something about the thrill of harvesting mallards in a greentree reservoir that has put it at the top of many waterfowl hunters’ bucket lists. If one of those birds is sporting a ...

The hummingbird Susan Heath is banding weighs 3.06 grams—an amount, I will learn, when she places a bird on my open palm, is too light for a human hand to even feel. Ten minutes earlier, the bird flew ...

The year was 1902. Paul Bartsch, a mollusk researcher at the Smithsonian Institution, wondered whether the aquatic snails he was studying could be spread from one body of water to another by aquatic ...

Another round of DOGE-led layoffs is expected to impact the Department of the Interior in the coming days, and it could have serious implications for the future of migratory bird hunting in North ...