bird

Among birders there’s something called “chasing a bird.” As I’ve written before, chasing a bird involves a birder learning of a rare or unusual bird —...

With spring in full swing and young animals more visible, state wildlife officials remind New Yorkers to appreciate wildlife from a safe distance and ...

WELLSVILLE — No chickens came home to roost Monday night after the village board called yet another hearing concerning the keeping of chickens within ...

ALBANY (TNS) —Democratsin the state Legislature are renewing a push to mandate that all eggs sold inNew Yorkare from free-range producers who do not k...

Our long winter nights are the perfect time for me to sort through thousands of images of people, places and wildlife that I’ve collected since gettin...

HOUGHTON — The Ortlip Gallery celebrated the opening of Ian Campbell’s “After Birds” exhibit on Friday, Oct. 25, at the Center for the Arts at Houghto...

LAKE GEORGE (TNS) — The New York Department of Environmental Conservation and the Lake George Park Commission are teaming up to track double-crested c...

If you know anything about Oswego, New York, you know that its winters can be brutal — even by Upstate New York standards. Located on the very shoreli...

I am against the logging project in Zoar Valley planned by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation based on a Connecticut Audubon plan...

In my last column I wrote about my excitement at locating three nesting prothonotary warblers at Magee Marsh in Ohio over the Memorial Day Weekend. Pa...

There have been some interesting developments in the birding world since my last column, starting with the first-ever New York state record of a limpk...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — It’s November, so it’s time to talk turkey. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is warning families that turkeys may cost more this Th...

Shooting at running or flying game with a shotgun is always a challenge, especially if you are not regularly shooting trap, skeet or sporting clays. T...

Remy, Buddy, Maggie and Betty Boop keep Tara Hurlin on her toes. She calls her flock of birds—an African grey parrot, a red lory, a Goffin’s cockatooa...

If you are unfortunate enough to have been bitten by the spring gobbler bug, the infection has more than likely spread deep and is incurable. Having s...

Pennsylvania officials confirmed Monday the state’s first positive case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in domestic poultry — in a flock of comme...

With highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), a serious, fatal disease of poultry, a concern in the Northeast, the Cornell Cooperative Extension sugg...

If you spend days in the forests hunting you begin, after time, to notice all species of wildlife have their own particular identifying motions. An ex...