With the use of autonomous recording units, or ARUs, scientists can listen to bird frequencies to understand their behaviors.

Plus, morning garden observations reveal distinctive butterflies that use their straw-like proboscis to extract nectar from ...

A well-beloved backyard bird in our region is the Purple Martin. This large, darkly colored sparrow is a commonly seen ...

Birds with “house” built into their names are, not surprisingly, common urban residents. Three such birds found in Minnesota include the house wren, house finch and house sparrow. Here’s a quick bio ...

The microhabitat structures used by house sparrows during sampling were based on personal observations and followed the groups: (A) Trees - includes sparrow individuals observed in herbs, tree ...

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire are using solar-powered tags to track salt marsh sparrows and collect data ...

Calypso King of the World, The Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco), will celebrate his 90th birthday on July 9. In celebration ...

The 12th annual Unicoi County Summer Count took place Saturday, June 14, with 15 observers in six parties. Sharp-eyed ...

Some plants may look appealing at first, but become costly landscaping headaches. These common choices can be invasive, messy, or hard to control. These are the plants landscapers quietly wish you'd ...

Learn more about Lone Tree Elementary here - See an overview of the school, get student population data, enrollment information, test scores and more.

The victim was doing tree removal work at a Somers home Monday, June 23, when he was struck by a falling tree limb. He later died of his injuries.

Both male and female flowers are small and white, but female flowers develop into large, hard seedpods. Cultivars have been developed of male trees that will not produce the somewhat messy fruit.