A New Bedford resident recently found a purple gallinule in her backyard. Others were spotted in Maine and Vermont.

Winter birding across Maine highlights familiar winter species, simple tracking clues, feeder tips and welcoming places for residents to enjoy wildlife all season.

But some social media users have suggested a noticeable difference in one popular song in particular — "The Twelve Days of ...

In the winter, birds search for nutrient-rich food. Planting the right shrubs and berries in New England gardens can help feather friends survive.

In a secluded corner of Sydney Harbour, Hermit Bay at Vaucluse is home to beautiful sandstone outcrops and properties with ...

The Huey’s designated successor, the MH-139A Grey Wolf, has suffered from delays and cost overruns and is not yet prepared to ...

This year’s top titles run the gamut and include an adaption of a Korean folk tale, a highly entertaining question-and-answer ...

Before ending the year, we wanted to highlight this eclectic assortment of reading gems we couldn’t fit into our earlier book ...

Take a jaunt through a jungle of strange neurons underlying your sense of touch, hundreds of millions of years of animal ...

Richard Baines’s book shares his lifelong passion for wildlife and explains how his unique Flamborough garden attracted rare ...

Beneath a tree where a sloth sleeps, juvenile caimans lurk in the long grasses. The air is thick with the sound of an astonishing frog chorus. As night falls, and I look at the moon and stars, I ...

“The first time I met a bird close-up, it was dead,” Adam Nicolson informs the reader at the start of “Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood” (FSG, 448 pages, $32), wryly capturing a paradox at the ...