Imagine sprinting full-speed into a solid oak tree at 15 miles per hour — and then doing it again and again, 20 times per ...

Eight budding bird artists have been selected as T-shirt Art Contest winners in the Georgia Department of Natural Resources' 20th annual Youth Birding Competition. Effingham College and Career Academy ...

Millions of birds invisibly migrate through the night sky each autumn, most flying in near silence toward their wintering ...

Brilliant, yellow daffodils, pink rhododendrons, camelias and skunk cabbage are all making their presence known and are giving us the happy message that spring is virtually here. Robins are everywhere ...

On Wednesday morning, I woke up to 8 inches of snow and a population of woodpeckers at my backyard feeders that had exploded. By Friday, the temperature dropped to a minus 2 degrees Fahrenheit, ...

As temperatures finally rise above freezing, the snow surrounding the house and in the woods ever so slowly collapses. Icicles drip, drip by day and refreeze by night. When the sun is shining, some ...

While many of our region’s colorful birds fly south for the cold months, resident woodpeckers offer a reliable contrast to this season’s monochrome palette. A pileated woodpecker’s blazing crest and ...

When the Chicago-based Northern Trust Company acquired her grandfather’s Miami bank in the early 1970s to gain a foothold in Florida, Elizabeth Ludwig Madden kept her $20 million inheritance with the ...

The morning coldness was not the only thing that greeted me as I walked out to check my bird feeders early in the week. Eleven red-shafted northern flickers flew away from the feeders along with ...