Sometimes we learn about animals not from their direct presence, but from the signs they leave behind: scat, tracks in the snow and sometimes their dead remains - bones or fur or feathers. A friend ...

Ornithologist Carla Dove explains how the microscopic structure of a bird's feather can help identify the species and at the same time, make air travel safer for humans The Secret Life of Mistletoe: ...

Q: Do loons migrate together as a family in the fall? A: No, loons don't migrate in family groups. Instead, adult males leave first, usually in September, followed a few weeks later by adult females.

Carla Dove smiles as she tears open a small, flat cardboard box. She is sitting at a lab bench in her office at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. "It's kind of like Christmas for me because I ...

Twelve ancient artifacts or fragmented feather samples recovered from melting alpine ice patches in southern Yukon were analyzed in order to identify the species of birds associated with the ice ...

In a field steps from I-90, a team of biologists from the University of Montana took three baby Ospreys from nest at Warm Springs State Wildlife Management Area on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. The baby ...

Ornithologist Carla Dove explains how the microscopic structure of a bird's feather can help identify the species and at the same time, make air travel safer for humans The Wildest Reality Show in ...