Fall often sees certain larger-species breeding birds come up from the south and wander through the Tri-State, moving (illogically, it would seem) in a direction opposite to the birds’ ultimate ...

So, what’s the difference – our Kalahari encounter was around 6,000 miles from home in Botswana Southern Africa – the second ...

While I photographed, Cathy was busy observing several thousand roseate spoonbills, great and snowy egrets, and cormorants in a communal nesting area called a rookery at Smith Oaks on High Island in ...

Few experiences in life are as comforting as having a companion who answers needs and is there to serve without being summoned. Ideally, the relationship benefits both parties, each providing ...

Springer is one of the leading international scientific publishing companies, publishing over 1,200 journals and more than 3,000 new books annually, covering a wide range of subjects including ...

Charles Darwin described competitive interactions as one factor of natural selection and evolution, and present-day biologists usually emphasize this tenant whenever explaining basic, evolutionary ...

Egrets are the latest casualties in a shocking series of mass wildlife die-offs that have claimed manatees, shorebirds, fish, sea turtles and dolphins. They've been spotted along I-75, and Florida's ...

Last Saturday, Marge Watson of Georgetown discovered a cattle egret at Artichoke Dairy Farm on Rogers Street in West Newbury. Cattle egrets are a small, stocky bird compared to our common, and more ...