“Northern mockingbirds seem to enjoy sitting on this euonymus shrub. I always look for them in fall. When I took this photo, the striking backdrop was a crimson and orange maple tree. All the season’s ...

Harry Riker did not realize he was looking at an exceptionally rare bird when he spotted the gray bird with the blue tail and yellow sides outside his home. Riker, 69, spends significant amounts of ...

The animal kingdom gives us rainbows of color with butterflies and chameleons, and clownfish, but birds give us just as much of a show. Among the peacock, the toucan, and the macaw, there's a ...

Kingfishers live in a hole in the ground. Technically, they nest at the end of a long burrow scraped into the face of a steep earthen bank of some kind, a ditch, a shoreline, a sand pit, a dirt pile, ...

Even though Rhode Island is the smallest state in the country, it has a lot of different habitats, from woods to wetlands, to beaches, to urban and suburban areas. This means the state supports a ...