birds

The Louisiana Master Naturalists hosts a bird observation hike on May 14.

Writing of the carnage at Vicksburg during the Civil War, a teenage girl living near what is now West Monroe made an interesting natural history…

An article recently published in the journal Science rattled the American conservation community like no other. The paper summed up the results of…

Not unlike humans, birds have evolved various strategies to make a living. Some are fishermen, others hunters; some travel thousands of miles within a…

A California veterinarian has pleaded guilty for his part in what federal prosecutors say was a plan to illegally export exotic birds from New Orleans to…

With the arrival of spring and summer approaching, the likelihood of crossing paths with young birds that appear to be in distress rises. While the…

What does it say about a country that shoots and poisons its national emblem into extinction? This scenario almost played out in America, at least in the…

In the realm of commercial forestry, trees with holes are undesirable. They take up space where more valuable, sound trees can grow. For that reason…

The source of mysteries is not limited to the likes of Tony Hillerman or P.D. James. Nature also serves up some perplexing whodunits from time to time. On…

The degree-toting ornithologists call her pied-billed grebe but in Louisiana she answers to “di-dipper,” or “hell-diver” on a bad day. For her the water’s…