Great Blue Heron Perched in a Pine Tree

Despite their impressive size, Great Blue Herons weigh only 5 to 6 pounds thanks in part to their hollow bones—a…

Cooper’s Hawk at Fort Morgan

Unlike falcons that use their bills, Cooper’s Hawks squeeze their prey to death with their feet and have been known…

The Peregrine Falcon is a very fast flier, averaging 40-55 km/h (25-34 mph) in traveling flight, and reaching speeds up…

The Sanderling is a small, light-colored sandpiper with a straight, black bill and black legs.

The forty six North American species that migrate to and from North America on a yearly basis, also makes them…

Red–shouldered Hawks are medium-sized, with broad, rounded wings and medium-length tails that they fan out when soaring.

Loggerhead Shrikes eat insects and other arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, small mammals, and birds; they also sometimes feed on roadkill and…

A plain brown bird with an effervescent voice, the House Wren is a common backyard bird over nearly the entire…

My grandparents, Jake and Alma Phillips, were share-croppers during the first years of their marriage. My mother has stories of…

You can see Jupiter’s moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto in the night sky while Jupiter is in opposition; when…