The emptiness of nature’s winter pantry is giving way to an abundant buffet as our migrating birds return. Maple and basswood trees extend a welcome, offering up sweet ambrosia to sustain ...

Florida is a veritable bird-spotting paradise for experienced ornithologists and aspiring bird-watchers. What’s more, there ...

Spring usually unfolds slowly, carefully, like the wings of a monarch butterfly as it labors into its new life after escaping its pupa. This year, spring exploded, like the seeds of a ...

These pretty, early spring flowers are the first to pop up in the garden. That’s what makes hellebores, winter heath and ...

As you approach spring landscaping chores, you might be considering adding a dogwood tree to your yard. Types of dogwood trees vary from the 6- to 12-inch miniature dogwood “tree” known as bunchberry ...

A mild winter with low or no snow to cover fields allows birds such as sandhill cranes and Canada geese to stay in Wisconsin.

Hummingbirds and their seemingly physics-defying ability to hover make them an absolute joy to watch but how do you attract ...

Birds are always up to something, and these entries captured an array of avians doing everything from impaling prey to ...

Grey mould, caused by the fungus Botrytis cinerea, is a fungal disease that initially takes on the form of grey spots found ...

Photo by MDC photo, courtesy of Missouri Department of Conservation By Francis Skalicky Bird song is a well-known harbinger of spring, but in Missouri, a small frog known as the spring peeper begins ...

Birds can be a major nuisance to gardeners the nearer we get to spring, but there is a natural way to deter them by using ...

One of our first spring arrivals will be the colorful hooded orioles. The crisp fluorescent yellow and jet black of the males ...