Context matters when you are comparing numbers and statistics. After a stock market dip and a follow-up recovery, the news ...

During my three-week stay, I heard the songs and calls of pygmy nuthatches more frequently than I visually observed them.

Last year, about 55,000 hunters harvested about 350,000 pheasants in North Dakota. In 2008, hunter numbers were almost twice as high, with 107,000 hunters bagging about 1 million pheasants.

Believe it or not, back then southeastern North Dakota’s pheasant density was just slightly higher than the traditional ...

Along with playgrounds and jogging tracks, it includes an animal barn with petting zoo, splash pads, a botanical garden, an ...

Best fishing is from first light to just after sunrise between Rocky Branch Park and Beaver Dam. Shad is the best live bait, ...

A large gathering of well in excess of 100 grey plovers (also referred to as black-bellied plovers due to their striking ...

The drought hasn’t been kind to the front-yard flower field, which declines gently from the road. The blooms turn their faces ...

A 100-day-old ground hornbill chick at the Memphis Zoo is growing up fast, and he’s even got his very own “studio apartment” ...

A cold, wet June in North Dakota impacted partridge and sharp-tailed grouse numbers and led to smaller brood sizes for ...

Lately, my home in the country has been all a whirl with the sights and sounds of one of my favorite birds. Few birds can ...

The piping plovers received much attention in Chicago again, and it’s well deserved. The return of mating plovers is a ...