My son and his fiancé were out in Seattle during Winter Break (we are all teachers). They sent back a photo for me to ID of a cool-looking bird riding the swell out in Puget Sound. I had just come ...

In my last column, I posed a question that went something like this, “when is a duck not a duck.” The answer is when it is a merganser. Then I wrote about the common merganser, which is a member of ...

DELMAR, N.Y. — The Niagara River corridor from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario is renowned as a spectacular winter haven for hundreds of thousands of water birds. But this year’s bitterly cold season has ...

A wild red-breasted merganser found in Milwaukee County tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza. The bird was one of 21 birds taken in by the Wisconsin Humane Society's Wildlife ...

PARADISE, MI – A duck with a crazy hairdo and thin bill was rescued last week from a fishing line that was tightly wrapped around its beak, according to the Michigan Audubon. Frank Fabbro, a fall ...

Arising last Tuesday on a dismal wintry morning with severe storm warnings and flooding predicted, I opened the drapes as I do each morning to reveal the waters of Oyster Creek and the Chesapeake Bay.