When Earth was in its infancy, 4.5 billion years ago, things were quite different for our planet. Earth was quite a bit smaller than it currently is, and it was not alone. A second, smaller planet ...

ADAMS COUNTY - We followed the sound through row after row of young red and jack pines. At times it seemed distant, others quite close. "I think he's just up here," said Ashley Olah, a doctoral ...

Conservation agencies and volunteers are out in jack pine forests in parts of the U.S. and Canada, searching for and counting a particular kind of bird, the Kirtland’s warbler. At 5:45 a.m. I met up ...

Pine warblers suddenly appear like golden, tinkling ornaments as they come down from the tops of pine trees to alight on backyard bird feeders. They’re the only warbler residing with us in the Houston ...

I would choose the pine warbler as the symbolic bird for Houston because of its energetic behavior and faithfulness to our neighborhoods. Pine warblers are the only wood-warblers I know of in this ...

February 2024 was quite unusual in several ways. Much of the month gave us warm temperatures, some far beyond normal. These mild temperatures, frequently above freezing along with a very small amount ...

DETROIT -- Successful efforts to restore populations of an endangered bird species in northern lower Michigan have cleared the way for researchers to look at the effects of that restoration on the ...

I try not to get jaded about my backyard birds, but sometimes I find myself thinking "just another cardinal" or "I’d love to see something more exotic." Most of us already have a spectacular array of ...

Kirtland's warblers, the once-endangered species that experienced a remarkable turnaround over the last 40 years, are declining again in population. There were 1,489 breeding pairs of the small ...

LOVELLS, MI – Decades-long strategies to protect Michigan’s most famous songbird may be shifting. Members of the Kirtland’s warbler conservation team recently witnessed proof that although jack pine ...