Back in 2025, wildlife biologist Kylie Brunette was going through footage from camera traps she’d placed in front of woodcock nests in the forests of West Virginia when something shocking caught her ...
One of South America’s least known and most threatened seabirds—frequently tangled in fishing nets and now facing warming ...
This audio story is brought to you by BirdNote, a partner of The National Audubon Society. BirdNote episodes air daily on public radio stations nationwide. The emphatic hoots of a pair of Barred Owls ...
It’s no secret that shrikes are formidable predators. The grayscale songbirds of the open country might look as harmless as mockingbirds, but these black-masked “butcherbirds,” as they’re known, pack ...
Susan Willson has a killer cat. “He's basically a professional killer,” Willson says. “I was trying to find something that worked because I was so appalled at him bringing me two birds a week.” ...
Raptors are on the move. Now is a great time to get out and see the birds of prey as they migrate south for the winter (click here for a list of 10 awesome places to watch the spectacle). Seeing the ...
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Cowboys sometimes called these owls 'howdy birds,' because they seemed to nod in greeting from the entrances to their burrows in prairie-dog towns. Colorful fiction once held that owls, prairie-dogs, ...
A localized resident of the Bahamas and a few other islands in the western Caribbean, the Bahama Mockingbird has strayed to southern Florida on a number of occasions since the early 1970s. One male ...
The white-cheeked geese of North America were long considered to make up just one highly variable species, Canada Goose. It was not until 2004 that four of the smallest forms were formally recognized ...
Named for its ringing kis-ka-dee calls, this bird seems to break the rules for the flycatcher family. Besides flying out to catch insects in the air, it also grabs lizards from tree trunks, eats many ...
In leafy woodlands of the East, the Rose-breasted Grosbeak often stays out of sight among the treetops. However, its song -- rich whistled phrases, like an improved version of the American Robin's ...