If you can’t regularly visit Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, check out the roving animal cam. The zoo features a new animal or exhibit angle every week. A family of North American barn swallows in their ...

Ornithologist Arthur Bent’s words in the early 1900s still hold true today. “Everybody who notices birds at all knows, admires and loves the graceful, friendly barn swallow,” he explained. “No bird in ...

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The long grass sways as a soft summer wind sweeps under two strange structures, blowing with it the faint smell of manure, in an otherwise empty Ontario field. Under one, which looks like a tiny house ...

We’ve all got our favorite signs of the changing seasons: first trillium, first crocus, first evening peeper chorus, first gelatinous mass of frogs’ eggs in a vernal pool. One of mine is the sensation ...

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