Black skimmers will sometimes rest on the beach by laying their head and belly on the sand, Koczur said. A casual observer ...

We were buoyed by the miracle of nature, that something as destructive as a hurricane could deposit something so rare and ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, ...

A Greater Roadrunner zoomed into view and hopped atop one of the tee boxes to survey its surroundings. I focused my binoculars to get a better look at the bird, a lifer for me, and that’s when I ...

The vagrant kelp gull mated with a local herring gull, though the chick did not survive. Experts say it's a "complete mystery ...

Purple martins roost in large numbers of hundreds of thousands of individuals to prepare for their annual migration to South ...

Beaks have many uses, most of us are familiar with them being used to obtain food, and certainly that is the main function. I will try to point out another use or two and also use a variety of photos ...

Nevertheless, nature still has the ability to surprise us. Take the shoebill, for example: a bird so bizarre, it almost ...

Gary Larson’s The Far Side may be best known for its humor, but on more than one occasion, Larson has delivered surprisingly ...