The American dipper, a drab-looking bird no larger than a robin, is a splashy rarity: a songbird that swims and even walks underwater. This round-bodied gray bird with short wings and a stubby tail is ...

The Whitmore Lake-based author also wrote an album to accompany his collection of short stories set in a fictional, rural ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

In The Place for History, a bird once found in Missouri is now officially extinct and a German immigrant who lived in the ...

Despite cats' innate desire to wander and hunt, they are often kept inside by their human servants due to concerns about ...

The Nobel laureate’s new novel “We Do Not Part” grapples with an atrocity and the difficulties of bearing witness.

The first book in a new crime series, Dirty Money introduces us to a new unlikely detective duo who are brought together when ...

Arunachal Pradesh Governor unveils a poetry collection by Prof Tomo Riba, celebrating birds' ecological roles. The book aims ...

A federal judge heard a request Thursday to block Iowa's so-called book ban law once again but did not issue a ruling.

A mild winter with low or no snow to cover fields allows birds such as sandhill cranes and Canada geese to stay in Wisconsin.

Star Wars star Mark Hamill, author Stephen King and millions of others now are Bluesky users. But the NFL is holding out for ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...