If you're near High Island, Texas in the spring, you might witness a "fallout," one of the great spectacles of bird migration. Thousands of birds, ...
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Except around Easter, chicken eggs usually come in a predictable range of colors: white, brown, and sometimes pale blue or green. Chickens are desc...
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Preston Pittman won his first turkey-calling contest when he was only 16, and he makes the sounds with his mouth. Sadler McGraw uses the "friction"...
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Horned Larks rival meadowlarks as the most colorful birds of North American grasslands. They live in prairies, fields, and tundra, but agriculture ...
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Evolutionary time is long — the earliest ancestors of birds emerged around 50 million years ago. Against that yardstick, the length of time humans ...
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A Golden Eagle perches on the arm of a Kazakh horseman in the Altai Mountains of Northwestern Mongolia. The horseman and bird are hunting golden fo...
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Most of the time, a Ruby-crowned Kinglet is neither ruby nor regal. A tiny songbird washed in faded olive-green, the male shows a hint of crimson a...
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From a bird's perspective, the Dry Tortugas, a cluster of islands in the Gulf of Mexico, can be a life-saver. Millions of migratory songbirds fly n...
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Rossini’s 1815 opera, “The Thieving Magpie” tells of a household maid who nearly goes to the gallows for stealing silver from her employers. At the...
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A conversation with Greg Grandin, Valeria Luiselli, and John Lanchester.
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One male Red-winged Blackbird’s marshland territory may include five—or even as many as fifteen—nesting females. And he makes an effort to mate wit...
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In the arid Arizona desert, where cacti thrive but trees are scarce, the Gila Woodpecker and this Gilded Flicker carve out nest cavities in living ...
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Birding is often best in the least likely places. At sewage treatment plants, watch for ducks and gulls - and raptors keeping watch over them all. ...
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Did you know that human breastmilk is a complex living nourishment? And that breastfeeding offers protection from contraception? Join Food Sleuth R...
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Each spring, millions of birds head north. From Ecuador, beautiful Scarlet Tanagers fly to the eastern US and Canada, many traversing the Gulf of M...
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This is the story of my recent expedition to South Greenland. I am a graduate student studying Greenland's past climate and how its local glaciers ...
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It's spring! And for many birds, a time to look their best to attract a new mate. This American Goldfinch has recently molted. Its old, worn-down f...
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Even for the most experienced birders, there are days where we learn something entirely unexpected. Here’s poet Sidney Wade, recounting one such en...
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The Northern Mockingbird has a broad repertoire. It can mimic everything from other birds to inanimate objects. And it does so at all hours of the ...
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A federal judge temporarily blocked drilling after he found the Bureau of Land Management failed to adequately consider climate impacts when it hel...
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A federal judge temporarily blocked drilling after he found the Bureau of Land Management failed to adequately consider climate impacts when it hel...
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When a goat puts its head down to graze, its eyes rotate in its head to keep its horizontal pupils parallel to the ground. That gives the goat, a p...
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We'll party with soon-to-retire funk giant George Clinton and his special guests, Fishbone, who'll be touring with him this summer; we'll board the...
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin joins a family in the battle against their doppelgangers in Jordan Peele's Us.
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On the next Snap, "Can't Hold Me Down." The world has a natural order that we all abide...except when we don't.
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