Forty third grade students from Mahan Elementary School, in Norwich, were treated to a bird ecology field trip program at the Audubon Center in Pomfret, on Oct. 25. The program was sponsored by the ...

These lessons were designed to accompany parts three, four, and five of the PBS Life of Birds series. Although this lesson plan was primarily developed for grades 9-12, teachers of elementary or ...

Birds can teach valuable lessons. Sitting in my upstairs office, I often see feathered friends stopping outside the window ...

I've been out doing chores with the sunrise a few times in the past couple of weeks. I love that time of day. The light is gorgeous. Dew dots the grass. It's cool and calm. There's something soothing ...

You all know that most species of animals can fly -- but not humans. There are more than a million species of flying insects, but do you know that among the 13,000 warm-blood vertebrate species (which ...

Albatross and hawks do it. Greater sage grouse and prairie chickens don’t do it. Humans do and don’t do it. Let’s do it, let’s stay monogamous. Or not. We’re all a little birdlike in our varying ...