My friend Trip Lamb’s recent photographs from Africa reinforced for me the value of vicarious ecology, which I define as enjoying someone else’s outdoor experiences. Vicarious ecology offers ways to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The nightjar, a nocturnal bird species, is a master of disguise. Their grey-brown coloring and streaked feathers help them to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first recorded sighting of a common cuckoo in New York recently created a stir in the birding community. As reported by CBS ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

A global study based on the collective biocultural memory of 10 local communities in Latin America, Asia, and Africa warns of the environmental and cultural impact of the ongoing loss of biodiversity ...