A bird of prey or a raptor is a bird that hunts and eats other animals. Because the prey is often large relative to the ...

In a new book, a curator at England's Natural History Museum describes rare and interesting nests and eggs—from the house ...

Swiss voters have cast the final ballots on a proposal to increase protections for the Alpine country's cherished plant and ...

Pigeon describes a range of birds in the Columbidae family. What we call the common pigeon is actually called a rock dove.

At the end of a week filled with violence in the Middle East, Yossi Mekelberg joins us from Israel to discuss the latest and ...

Every year, during the tail end of summer, it is hard to not notice the tremendous amount of activity in the skies above ...

Blue Graffiti He is proud to be from a small town in middle-of-nowhere Midwestern America. And he wants you to know why. With ...

Some bird names are spot on. Yellow-rumped warblers have yellow rumps as an obvious field mark. Mourning doves have a ...

“Right now we’re in the middle of hawk migration season ... precipitation outlook suggests wetter than normal weather for ...

Across the street from the federal courthouse that bears his name and down the hill from where he grew up on the lower South Hill, the top floor of the Chronicle Building was packed with an audience ...