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Birds undertake remarkable migrations, utilizing a complex navigation system that combines familiar senses with extraordinary abilities. They rely on landmarks, the sun, stars, and even the Earth ...
A new push for more oil and gas drilling, mining, and logging threatens irreparable damage to irreplaceable habitats.
In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...
A concerning discovery from a sweeping study of bird behavior across North America indicates a critical mismatch in our ...
The Trump administration announced a plan on June 17 to open nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and ...
When Slater Mill opened in 1793, it signaled the eventual demise of river herring and other migratory fish in the Blackstone ...
Learn about the iconic Mississippi River: its vibrant river history, crucial role among US rivers, diverse ecology, and the ...
The longest bird migration route in the Western Hemisphere flows south from Canada through Eastern Iowa, via the Mackenzie River, and south to the Mississippi Delta and the Gulf of Mexico. The ...
The Darién Gap, a perilous journey for millions of migrants, has also become a corridor for the northward spread of the New ...
How birds use the sky to find their way. Mostly birds migrate at night, as they cant rely on the sun for direction during that time, they use the stars to navigate.
That was it. The birds were there. Somewhere between the treetops and the cloud bottoms, one of the least-known, albeit massive in scale, natural phenomena was under way: the nocturnal migration of ...
Tucked away in southern New Castle County, Odessa is the kind of place most people zip past on Route 13, perhaps noticing the ...