A new study suggests that some city birds may respond differently depending on whether they are approached by a man or a woman. Researchers analyzed the behavior of 37 urban…
“omething was wrong.” The other day, Sherryl Romain was walking through her East Harlem neighborhood in New York when she noticed a dove sitting on the sidewalk. His pretty feathers…
“I just focused on getting the babies safely to her …” She didn’t plan to save anyone that day — but when a mama goose and her seven babies appeared…
“They are growing fast.” Earlier this month, wildlife officials in Izmit, Turkey, were called in after 11 orphaned ducklings were discovered stuck near a busy highway, unable to get to…
In Rio de Janeiro’s largest urban forest, the noise of the city fades into the background beneath the dense canopy of the Atlantic Forest. Within this restored natural space, conservationists…
A woman has been praised as a hero after braving icy water to save an injured seagull that had been trapped in fishing line for more than five hours near…
“He was like, ‘What is that?’” Earlier this month, a homeowner in Columbia, Pennsylvania, was heading into his basement when he spotted something odd perched on the stairs — a…
“It was the most prolonged eye contact I’ve ever experienced.” Each evening as Nicholas Albright, a park ranger at Gifford Pinchot State Park in Pennsylvania, locked the gates for the…
“At first glance, it almost looked like part of the surroundings.” After heavy rains in rural Queensland, the weather finally cleared and the ground began to dry. That’s when a…
While scrolling through Facebook one day, a volunteer wildlife rescuer named Tracy came across a troubling post in a local group. A man in Palm Bay had discovered a hawk…