January can feel quiet outdoors but head to the woods or a wetland for some top birdwatching moments. At this time of year ...

Winter transforms the American wilderness into a landscape of stark beauty and profound silence. Snow blankets the ground, ...

We have lived on Chautauqua Lake now for over 30 years and have very seldom seen the lake, as it now is, iced-over before Christmas. It may have happened once or twice before, but then, I think, it ...

Michigan’s waterways will be filled with a fascinating cast of characters. As colder temperatures and icy winds freeze Arctic ...

The initiative coincides with the population growth at the reserve. Situated at the Yangtze River estuary, Chongming Dongtan ...

When I became serious about birding in the 1990s, I wasn’t thinking about milestone birds. Then they started creeping up. The ...

The low autumn light turned the tundra gold as James Schaeffer, seven, and his cousin Charles Gallahorn, 10, raced down a ...

Photojournalist Steve Jessmore figures he and his camera have spent 225 mornings on the boardwalk that leads out onto Reeds Lake, a lake flanked by million-dollar homes and around the corner from ...

Each winter, the flooded rice fields of Yuba County host tens of thousands of tundra swans. Tundra swans are one of the largest native birds in North America, weighing more than 20 pounds with a ...