While on a recent visit to the Chicago Botanic Garden, Ann Harness spotted a creature she’d never seen before. The tall brown bird with a long bill looked like a cross between a rail and a heron. It ...

MANAGEMENT AREA, MIDDLE CREEK WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA IS A BEAUTIFUL SPOT, BUT NOT EXACTLY A TROPICAL PARADISE. BUT THEN AGAIN, MAYBE IT IS CERTAINLY NOT A VISITOR. WE’RE ACCUSTOMED TO SEEING. THAT ...

CLAY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) -- A tropical bird was spotted in Pennsylvania for the first time. The Pennsylvania Game Commission said a limpkin, which is mostly found in Florida, the Yucatán Peninsula of ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Lancaster County birdwatchers. People from across the state flocked to the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Clay Township, ...

Avid bird watchers flocked to Lancaster County last weekend to get a look at bird that made its first recorded appearance in Pennsylvania. The limpkin, a wading bird species related to cranes and ...

Photographer Karen Kader walked right by the bird at first, thinking it was a great blue heron. “Then it dawned on me that it had spots,” she said. What Kader actually discovered last week at a ...