4+ hour, 20+ min ago  (255+ words) In a classic example of co-evolution, scientists believe that jewelweed flowers have evolved their design and high sugar content to attract hummingbirds. By midsummer, the deck in our backyard is lined with a profusion of tall orange flowers. Each flower…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago  (47+ words) Loon Nest Rutland Herald A common loon incubates an egg this week on a nest in Calais this week. Loons are water birds, only going ashore to mate and incubate eggs. Unlike most birds, loons have solid bones that make…...

4+ week, 4+ hour ago  (661+ words) Rutland Herald "Firefly" refers to more than one species in the beetle family Lampyridae. There are roughly 2, 400 described species found around the world, with 44 found in Vermont. In the deepening twilight, the pines edging my backyard merge into a wall…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (125+ words) rutlandherald. com "Hey, this box stinks: the weird work of intercepting trafficked wildlife in Alaska Chris Andrews is a wildlife inspector for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He and his team are in charge of intercepting trafficked wildlife. They enforce…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (34+ words) Rutland Herald A Sublette Herd pronghorn sizes up an intruder in its habitat within the confines of Jonah Energy's Normally Pressured Lance gas field on Aug. 10, 2023, in Sublette County, Wyo....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (691+ words) Rutland Herald Bobolinks prefer to nest away from the edges of their grassland. If you live near a large meadow, hayfield or grassland, you may have recently noticed some bubbly robotic noises emanating from those areas. It might sound like…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (84+ words) FILE - A group of life size bronze statues, seen June 2, 1995, are the iconic signature piece of art at the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N. Y. The statues depict Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass and Lucretta Mott and other…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (42+ words) Alaska-Bald Eagle Rutland Herald A bald eagle is perched on a marker in the Gastineau Channel, as a floatplane is about to land in the background and a cruise ship approaches Juneau, Alaska, on Saturday, May 16, 2026, in Juneau, Alaska....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (605+ words) John Hathaway, bottom left, hands the original turkey call he used to harvest Vermont's first wild turkey after reintroduction to Rose Smith, of the Pawlet Historical Society, as Toni Mikula Jason Batchelder and Hathaway's wife watch during a recent celebration....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (403+ words) Given the almost unimaginable loss of roughly 3 billion birds in North America over the last 50 years " a decline that continues to accelerate across nearly half of the species scientists have studied " quantifying the impacts of noise pollution may help preserve…...