As the morning fog lifts off the bay, John Muir Laws is sitting in the dirt talking to a seagull. "The oval of your body curves back to your head," he says in a low voice. "Sloping forehead angle. I ...

Since 2016, Montpelier-based artist Hilary Ann Love Glass has put out an annual calendar featuring plants, wildlife and fantastical creatures. For her 2020 calendar, she produced detailed pen-and-ink ...

This story was originally broadcast on November 17, 2019. In the hedgerows and hayfields of Deerfield, Massachusetts, David Allen Sibley can't help talking about the wonder of birds. "I'm hearing a ...

Designed for avian enthusiasts, this workshop will introduce drawing techniques using an assortment of bird specimens. Using graphite pencils, participants will learn how to start a drawing, shading ...

WASHINGTON — When it comes to global warming, the canary in the coal mine isn’t a canary at all. It’s a purple finch. As the temperature across the U.S. has gotten warmer, the purple finch has been ...

New Market, Va. – Steve Kress would like a few words with you if you’re among the many property owners manicuring their yards to resemble putting greens on a golf course. The few words? “Stop doing it ...

Most of the pure pleasure of being an outdoorsman is being outdoors, roaming woods and fields, fishing in streams and lakes, hiking forest trails, or boating along this body of water or that.

She’s a novelist turned naturalist. New York Times best-selling author Amy Tan has turned her intense gaze to the world of birds and shared her private drawings and musings in a new book. Jeffrey ...

Reconstructing dinosaurs from dusty squashed bones takes plenty of imagination. From the lumbering dragons of 19th century illustrations to the scaly lizards of Jurassic Park, scientists don't always ...

We recently did our bird-watching in Big Bend National Park by walking around blooming Havard agaves in the Chisos Mountains Basin. Commonly called the century plant under the myth that it blooms once ...