Pick up a pine cone the next time you go on a stroll in the woods. Consider it from the perspective of a crossbill—a possible food container. The cone is probably open, with the scales folded back...
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It's similar to Jurassic Park, except without the dinosaurs. One enchanted tourist characterised it as being "a million years from Miami." A visit to the National Audubon Society's Corkscrew Swamp...
Rainfall in southern Saskatchewan has been plentiful during the previous two years. The ditches are overgrown with grasses such as Brome and Crested Wheat. They produce excellent livestock hay. It is...
According to history, ancient European naturalists were baffled by the disappearance of millions of European birds each winter. Many species that were numerous in the summer months departed in the...
The steep, pink rock wall of Frijoles Canyon at Bandelier National Monument, strewn with small caves that were originally the cliff houses of the Anasazi, the ancestors of the Pueblo Indians, may...
It's unusual for a birder to visit the Davis Mountains in West Texas in November, but I like it. The grasslands are alive with Horned Larks, Lark Buntings, longspurs, and sparrows settling in for the...