Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The most comprehensive study ever undertaken of marsh birds' abundance around Great Lakes coastlines shows virtually all of the ...

From the back of the skiff, on a homemade poling platform bolted to the johnboat hull, Walter “Joe Guide” Dinkins is taking no chances. “Watch close, now,” the 59-year-old says. “Watch good. These ...

One of the tropical marsh birds was discovered in a New Bedford backyard exhausted and underweight during a December storm.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Deep in the difficult terrain of the Gulf Coast high marsh lives a tiny, dark and white-speckled bird called the black rail. These elusive birds that make their homes near muddy ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The Black Rail, a coastal marsh bird, is one of the most threatened species in North ...

Sometimes, the visitors steal the show. "The Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia) is one of many birds that spend the winter months here in the Sunshine State," Weakley explained, adding the tiny ...

The sparrows are endemic to the marshes on the East Coast — they exist nowhere else in the world. But those habitats and the birds that depend on them are quickly disappearing, in part due to the ...

A baby trumpeter swan with bird flu lies on the snow to die in December at Sweet Marsh in Bremer County. (Photo courtesy of Kip Ladage) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using ...

The most comprehensive study ever undertaken of marsh birds' abundance around Great Lakes coastlines shows virtually all of the bird species thriving over the past decade-plus — likely because of high ...