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Songbird takes a peaceful forest pause

A small red-breasted bird perches quietly on a mossy branch, surrounded by lush greenery. The forest is calm, and the bird ...
The tradition of eating turkey at Christmas began in the early 16th century when William Strickland introduced turkeys to Europe in 1526. Henry VIII is known to have enjoyed turkey, and by the ...
Egyptian geese are aggressively territorial. During mating, they are monogamous, making it likely the pair fighting the ...
And so goes the legend of the Great Turkey Chase. A three-paragraph article in the December 16, 1959, Flint Journal confirmed Imlay City truly did host a Turkey Chase. Jim was indeed pushed and landed ...
Although development of a jab for the H5N1 strain of avian flu is well under way, other strains are receiving less attention ...
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is building and installing nest boxes for the state's endangered barn owls.
Right now, many of us have a bit of moss sitting in our Christmas decorations at home. Some of us picked it ourselves in the ...
Bees are frequently associated with large queen-serving colonies featuring hundreds if not thousands of insects. In actuality ...
Winter arrived early this year, and unlike such occasions in the past decade, she has decided to stay. The temperatures have been consistently below freezing since Thanksgiving and it has actually ...
It took years of moving birdhouses around the field to finally get a pair of bluebirds to settle in. One May, during our 30th ...
Federal and state authorities report a confirmed case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a Jessamine County ...
Winters in the Colorado Rocky Mountains can be long and formidable. Before the snow flies, thousands of birds migrate each ...