Autumn can be a quiet time for garden birds for many reasons, but there's one type of food in particular that will keep ...

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Jeff Reiter has a nemesis — or three — on his mind. He has come tantalizingly close to the mangrove cuckoo down in Florida.

A volcanic island in Iceland revealed that birds, not wind, brought the first plants. This changes what we know about how ...

A new study from Iceland’s Surtsey island shows that birds carried most of the plants that colonised the island, overturning ...

When the volcanic island of Surtsey rose from the North Atlantic Ocean in 1963, it offered scientists a once-in-a-lifetime ...

Native trees and flowers in your garden will bring in more birds than ever before. Learn which native plants are best for ...

It is easy to get started feeding birds, but novice birders often make simple mistakes that keep birds from enjoying their ...

If you want to attract more birds to your garden, there are a few things you can do to make it more appealing - and it's all ...

For more than 1,000 years, ancient people built terraces, dams, pyramids and mounds in central Mexico. One of these sites is called Monte Albán, and it was carved from the mountain outside Oaxaca.

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