Annette Prince, director of the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors picks up a dead red-breasted merganser at 35th Street Beach ...

The second week of February is a good time to dig up and divide any early flowering bulbs such as snowdrops or crocus. Early ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...