2+ week, 6+ day ago   (717+ words) Ian Bell was 15 the first time he went looking for birds in Central Park alone in 2021, waking most mornings before school to walk the park with a pair of binoculars, oftentimes the only teenager doing so. “I remember starting birding…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (337+ words) An otter in New York. It sounds like the title of a direct-to-VHS children’s movie starring Jason Alexander as both the voice of the otter and his human nemesis. Seeing an otter in the Bronx River doesn’t sound like a…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (613+ words) Bert Gerber was woken up in the middle of the night by a loud and unfamiliar honking noise. He walked outside in his flip-flops to find his family’s barn — where about 60 turkeys and chickens slept — on fire. Gerber grabbed a…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1706+ words) POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE — For nearly 60 years, warring camps have battled one another for the soul of a wind-swept peninsula with breathtaking hills, rugged cliffs, granite outcroppings, oak forests and wide expanses of pasture land and beach. Jutting off the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (614+ words) Bert Gerber was woken up in the middle of the night by a loud and unfamiliar honking noise. He walked outside in his flip-flops to find his family’s barn — where about 60 turkeys and chickens slept — on fire. Gerber grabbed a…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago   (349+ words) A wildlife center west of Sacramento is expecting a speedy recovery for a river otter brought in Friday morning after the male was hit by a car. The young river otter suffered no broken bones or fractures in the strike…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (620+ words) On Friday morning, Denmark’s minister for nature and animal welfare stood before reporters to declare that a serious threat had been eliminated. On the lawn a few feet away, beneath a white sheet, lay the body of a young male…...