Sea birds like long-tailed ducks can be seen on Minnesota's northern waters like Lake Superior in winter. Listen for their distinctive calls, which some describe as a yodel.

Salton Sea: Fish and the birds that fed on them wiped out this winter. New top state official says it's a crisis, vows to act.

With Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre expecting its most significant fill in decades, hundreds of thousands of migratory birds are ...

The number of flamingos at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and across Florida has been rising, giving hope for a ...

Tall, magnificent birds with long legs and necks, cranes spend most of their lives near the shallow water of swamps, lakes, streams, and ponds to hunt for prey and construct their nests. There are 15 ...

The Santa Cruz Wharf, jutting half a mile into the Monterey Bay, offers a cheerful stroll past souvenir shops, fishing boat rentals advertised as "Husband Daycare," and children giggling at hordes of ...

As of 2009, the emperor penguin population was estimated at just shy of 600,000 birds. Unfortunately ... At the beginning of every Antarctic winter, the surface of the ocean begins to freeze and sea ...

Over the past month, the popular Black Sea resort beaches of Russia’s Krasnodar region have been transformed into a scene out of a dystopian sci-fi film, with thousands of workers in white ...

But if we don't have any sea ice during the winter, then our coast is essentially exposed for an additional three months during the year." Strong north winds and little to no ice make for ...

James Gentz has seen birds aplenty on his East Texas rice-and-crawfish farm: snow geese and pintails, spoonbills and teal. The whooping crane couple, though, he found “magnificent.” These ...

A very special "Sonic" Moment of Calm this week; it came from a listener, Fernanda. Having heard a few of Bryan Crump's ...

A storm in the Kerch Strait that caused two tankers to shipwreck on December 15 has spilled oil across more than 50 kilometers (almost 35 miles) of Black Sea coastline in Russia’s Krasnodar region. On ...