The red buckeye’s showy, red flowers are blooming in the wild now beneath forest canopies in Georgia’s Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions. The plant, typically a small shrub, also has been widely ...

North America's smallest falcon, the American Kestrel (Falco sparverius), has declined across the continent since the 1970s, ...

A team of environmental scientists at the University of Sydney, working with a pair of colleagues from the University of ...

Here’s the Central Texas bird forecast for the month, courtesy of Travis Audubon. Learn more about Central Texas birds and ...

The endangered orange-bellied parrot has lost 62 per cent of its genetic diversity and can only be saved by breeding with another species or editing its genes, a study suggests.

A magical mermaid story extracted from the new book Welsh Folk Tales of Coast and Sea by Peter Stevenson. The shallow sea in ...

A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

Tiny hummingbird chicks were observed mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to survive in the Panama rainforest–a first for science.

A chance encounter in a Panama rainforest has uncovered a new defensive behavior in white-necked jacobin hummingbird chicks.

With its fiery colours and trilling call that echoes through the bush, the crested barbet is a bold little bird that looks ...

Breeding birds can be seen at this time of year on both inland freshwater and coastal waters. Look out for Black-headed Gulls ...