8+ hour, 15+ min ago  (208+ words) DHH Lengel Middle School in Pottsville has been awarded a 2026 Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence. Students at the school successfully advocated to overturn a citywide ban on milkweed, which environmental experts say is a vital plant for struggling pollinator populations…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (451+ words) KEMPTON " Across Schuylkill County's landscape of farms, forests and old mine lands, black vultures are settling in for the winter instead of migrating south. Hawk Mountain researchers highlighted the trend during a live encounter featuring Igor, the sanctuary's black vulture…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (546+ words) As evidence of how the state's bald eagle population has rebounded, look no further than the eagle's nest in Kerr Park in Downingtown where the parent birds are now raising three frisky eaglets. While these healthy birds no longer have…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (664+ words) Lord, I'm just a soul whose intentions are good, but sometimes young deer searching for food can be misunderstood. With apologies to Eric Burton and the Animals, those revised lyrics somewhat explains a problem often overlooked when dealing with young…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (435+ words) Owl-like as they silently soar just several feet above marshes and fields, there's something haunting about northern harriers. Perhaps that's why male harriers are coined the "gray ghosts" of the hawk world. But these "gray ghosts" could soon become real…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (390+ words) Once upon a time, Pennsylvania was covered in lush forests, with dense thickets of native trees and shrubs growing right up to the riverbeds. The untarnished landscape made it easy for wildlife to move about by air, land and water…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (446+ words) You may recall a broad-winged hawk named May, who in autumn 2024 captured the hearts of nature lovers along the East Coast when she flew across Florida during Hurricane Milton " and temporarily went radio silent. As the hurricane ravaged the Sunshine…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (469+ words) Winter may mean less work in the garden, but there's still a lot you can do to positively impact the birds in your community. Here are 10 relatively simple ways you can make a big difference. The first time I saw…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (362+ words) This week, millions of migrating birds are flying across Pennsylvania, desperately trying to survive the flight to southern overwintering grounds. We know this because Bird Cast, a collaboration between Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Colorado State University, and the University of…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (273+ words) In an era when many of us are looking for ways to improve brain health, a new study offers a surprisingly affordable prescription: birdwatching. New research published in the journal JNeurosci, the Journal of Neuroscience, found that expert birders boasted…...