If the Trump administration gets its way, we won’t have much hope of learning more. The White House’s 2026 budget would end ...

For more than a century, the USGS program has revealed crucial insights about where birds go, how they’re faring, and what we ...

Grand Central Landfill’s wildlife habitat team bands young American kestrels Thursday, June 8, 2023, at the Waste Management Grand Central Environmental Education Center in Pen Argyl.

Measuring about six and a half feet high and nearly 40 feet long, these nets are made of fine mesh and used by researchers to capture otherwise hard-to-come-by data on a site’s bird population.

The federal government has been banding birds for more than 100 years, providing essential data that keeps waterfowl seasons humming from California to New York. Now, conservation groups worry ...

“If we recapture banded birds, ... “We’ve got so many pictures of little kids and families with young kids who just have this look of total incredulity in their eyes,” DiDiego said.

Bird lovers rejoice: it's nesting season for the piping plover, one of the cutest and most vulnerable native birds living along the New York coastline.The next few months are crucial for the survival ...

About three dozen people joined Fors and Kelly for Monday’s banding at the Grand Central Education Center, 891 Grand Central Road, which is open to the public and offers 2 miles or so of trails ...

Sierra Hastings stood at a Utah Division of Wildlife Resources bird-banding site, cradling a small gray-crowned rosy finch in her hands. After a nearly four-hour journey to Vernal from the Salt ...

They were expecting the bird to come in from Tanna’s left — it approached from her right. The tom was moving along the edge of the trees at a good clip. As Drew said “shoot him,” Tanna fired. Tanna ...

CBS News Pittsburgh Live. The three peregrine falcon chicks born in the nest on Pitt's Cathedral of Learning were banded on Wednesday, helping scientists study the species that was considered ...