birds
Posted Feb 23, 2022, 7:45 am
Fiona L.Q. Flaherty
/Cronkite News
This year’s Great Backyard Bird Count - a four day birding event that gives scientists a real-time snapshot of where birds are across the world - marked the event’s 25th anniversary and uses the data gathered by the public to give scientists a snapshot right before a major migration period.... Read more»
Posted Jan 22, 2013, 10:41 am
Gerald Bourguet
/Cronkite News Service
Federal officials have added nearly 500 miles of riparian area totaling nearly 90,000 acres to habitat considered critical to the recovery of the southwestern willow flycatcher, an endangered songbird.... Read more»
Posted Oct 12, 2011, 5:23 pm
Megan Merrimac
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum will celebrate winged creatures and the Year of the Bat during the Festival of Flight beginning Friday. ... Read more»
Posted Jun 8, 2010, 11:25 am
Erika Aguilar
/Texas Tribune
Hundreds of oil-covered animals have been rescued from the Gulf of Mexico so far. As Erika Aguilar of KUT News reports, the volume of casualties is steadily increasing.... Read more»
Posted Apr 5, 2010, 9:36 am
Dave Low
/TucsonSentinel.com
I'm not sure which is more of an eyesore: birds and their guano or nails/spikes designed to prevent birds from landing and leaving their guano.... Read more»
Posted Feb 16, 2010, 7:33 pm
Roberto De Vido
/politicomix
The Sulphur Springs Valley has attracted a record 40,499 wintering sandhill cranes this season, but not all of them are happy.... Read more»
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