Maryland Refuge is Mecca for Birders
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By Kristen Wyatt Associated Press  BLACKWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Md. -- There's no golf course or hotel coming to the quiet marshes around this refuge, a spot prized by birdwatchers for its bustling waterfowl and bald eagle populations.
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A vulnerable British bird has experienced an extraordinary population revival, figures have shown.
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ST MICHAELS, Maryland  - President George W. Bush took a nature outing on Saturday to tout new federal initiatives aimed at protecting migrating birds and two fish species prized by anglers.
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By Tom Pelton, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 22--SWAN POINT -- A combination of disease and last week's sudden cold snap might have caused the death of about 50,000 white perch in the Potomac River near this Southern Maryland community, state officials said.
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Environmental officials visit poultry farmers within control zone around Dorset swannery
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A robot ornithologist has been installed in a wildlife refuge to look for the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker.
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Property owners faced off against conservationists at a legislative hearing to reconsider new rules that restrict development near shorelines where sandpipers, plovers and other migrating birds feed and rest.
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By Annysa Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 4--It is a stirring sight that has awed Wisconsinites for six years now: an ultralight aircraft aloft in the fading sunlight, leading endangered whooping cranes from the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge on their maiden migration south.
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Republican conventioneers visiting Ellis Island on Sunday could well find their family roots on this spot of land in New York waters once famous for gulls, oysters and a gallows tree used to hang criminals.
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By Mary Perez, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 24--MOSS POINT -- Every once in a while, eagle hatchlings pop their heads out of the nest across the river from the Pascagoula River Audubon Center in Moss Point.  "I've got at least two babies," said Mark LaSalle, center director.
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Bird Rescue : Maryland Natural Resources Police last week rescued a bald eagle from certain death last week, when they found the male bird in Frederick County and took it to a veterinary clinic.
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Dog-walking could be having a dramatic impact on local bird life, a study suggests.
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A red-footed falcon spotted for the first time in North America is enticing birdwatchers to Martha's Vineyard.
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HENNEPIN, Ill. -- As steam rises from flat fingers of water reflecting an iron-gray sky, Donald Hey climbs to the top of an observation tower to watch a flock of American white pelicans huddled among the reeds. These reclaimed wetlands along the Illinois River, a man-made vista of corn and soybeans...
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The survival of some bird species in Iowa is threatened, and urban sprawl is part of the problem. That&#39;s according to a state group that keep tabs on the conversation of wild birds.
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Birder Mathew Tekulsky describes the bathing habits of birds, explaining the dependence of birds on water.
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By Victoria Advocate, Texas  Mar. 7--AUSTWELL -- In a recent aerial survey of the Aransas Wildlife Refuge, only 180 whooping cranes were spotted, but refuge officials believe the sea fog that rolled in hampered the count.   Tom Stehn, whooping crane coordinator for the U.S.