When I became serious about birding in the 1990s, I wasn’t thinking about milestone birds. Then they started creeping up. The ...

That’s Chadron State Park in a nutshell – Nebraska’s very first state park established back in 1921, quietly showcasing some of the most breathtaking landscapes you’ll find anywhere in the Cornhusker ...

This is a female eastern towhee. It is a smallish songbird native to most of the eastern half of the United States. It is larger than a common sparrow but smaller than a robin. The male and female ...

Pickering Creek Audubon Center has installed a MOTUS Wildlife Tracking System at the center as a collaborative effort to help ...

The small 8-inch owls produce tremulous trills that can sound chilling in the darkness, as heard during the recent ...

Bird species with declining populations get most of the attention in the world of bird conservation. This is logical. But let ...

Leaves – similar to yellow birch (B. alleghaniensis), but secondary veins may branch. Twigs – slender. Buds – ovoid with scales striated longitudinally. Fruits – nutlets borne in a papery sac ...

Needles – 2-ranked; 1/2″ long; tapering from the base to the apex; 2 lines of stomata on underside. Cones – about 2/3″ long; ovoid; scales with entire margins. “When the wind lifts up the Hemlock’s ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Mira Norian / Investopedia A bank identification number (BIN) is the initial set of four to ...

There are roughly 2.5 million known species on the planet, but scientists estimate that's only a fraction of the biodiversity on Earth. A new study shows we're finding new species like never before.