When a Gazette reporter learned the unsettling lore behind one particular bird, she decided to reframe the narrative and ...

Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs ...

For thousands of years sirens have lured sailors, haunted coastlines—and shapeshifted through myth and media. Here's how they evolved to the seductive mermaids of our modern imagination.

Everyone knows that if you want to enjoy the full experience of the dawn chorus in the forests of Central Europe, or carry ...

Birds and bees get all the action-and Samuel Taylor Coleridge was jealous. Here are the possible origins of the euphemistic phrase.

In “Tree Fall with Birdsong,” Kendall Dunkelberg’s fourth poetry collection, we are continually witnessing the melody of the natural world. From warblers to crows to the lakes and swamps of ...

Branscombe Primary pupils are turning heads and hearts with their haiku poems, now on display in a National Trust orchard ...

How is it that some of us are privileged and many are not? This subject is at the heart of a new collection of poetry.

Congress of the Birds, the only specialized nonprofit to treat sick and injured birds in RI is nearing completion on a new center in Chepachet.

Another bird migration season is ending, and it was a busy one in the Triad. An estimated 64 million birds passed through Forsyth and Guilford counties since March.

It’s peak spring migration season in Chicago, and residents can help birds arrive safely by turning their lights off at night ...

The evening of May 12, an estimated 1.1 million birds crossed over Monroe County during spring migration. Most migratory birds fly at night, which can make them difficult to see but provides ...