At winter's end, snow geese fly north to their breeding grounds on the Arctic tundra. Pairs mate for life and produce two to six eggs each year in a shallow ground nest. Chicks can swim and eat on ...

There's a familiar scene in “The Wizard of Oz,” where Dorothy and her pals proceed down the yellow brick road chanting, “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” Birding might have a similar line. This ...

I was very fortunate to grow up on a good-sized muddy lake not far from where I'm sitting. There, I could watch muskrats, catch sunfish, and observe a particular great blue heron. Every spring we ...

There are not many birds out there that have feet a different color than their legs. From the top of their legs to the bottom of their "toes," most birds are uniform in color. With many birds, such as ...

Not too long ago, while I was photographing a great egret from Goose Island, I noticed a canoe heading our way. I thought the egret would fly away when it saw the approaching canoe, but to my surprise ...

Nothing in nature captures the lure of spacious winter fields quite like the softly bugling call of sandhill cranes. Their rolling, resonate, bhrrr-ooo—bhrrr-ooo calls seem to bounce from Earth to sky ...

11 x 23 inches / 27 x 58 cm PAPER SIZE: 12 x 25 inches / 30 x 63 cm ...

I recently took a short walk down my backyard hill to take my grandchildren fishing on one of the stone-arched bridges at Silver Lake. As we got across the road and I could see the first bridge ...

KNIGHTS LANDING, Calif.—On a warm, sunny afternoon in late November, Roger Cornwell stopped his pickup near the edge of a harvested rice field to avoid spooking a great blue heron standing still as a ...