When you envision a black bear, you may picture our state’s second largest mammal as being a big, meat-eating killer. Technically, black bears are omnivores. Omnivores eat plants and animals. But did ...

Grackles are large blackbirds that have a reputation as bullies at feeders. There are three types of grackle birds to look ...

A team of University of Missouri doctors and vet students is treating a rare injured hawk found in southeast Missouri.

Tami Gingrich has had many experiences with the Cooper's hawk, including banding them, watching one eat her chicken and ...

During guided outings in a small motorboat along a Malaysian river, we would also see purple herons, endangered storks, and — a highlight of the trip — an orangutan.

Bird flu has killed at least four snowy owls in Massachusetts in recent weeks, adding the graceful white and black-patterned ...

These cold, windy February days keep some of us older folks indoors trying to stay warm. Recent snowfalls have finally turned ...

I have enjoyed seeing a new visitor at my bird feeding station. A beautiful male Eastern Towhee has decided to hang out at the Mahaffey’s for awhile instead of migrating further south. Slightly ...

From the weird to the wonderful, here's our roundup of animals you've never heard of before (and certainly won't forget in a ...

Columnist Bill Danielson explores the challenge of identifying individual birds and the rare moments that make one stand out ...

While the man-made and woman-made gusts and microbursts whip Washington, D.C., into chaos, the only disturbances here are at ...

Though sightings in Colorado are rare, these animals are crucial to the ecosystem as they help control populations of small ...