[ad_1] John Hardin has never had a problem with Turkey Vultures. The scavengers dispose of carrion around the Indiana farm where he raises about 40 cows and their calves. “They’ve always just cleaned up the dead animals,” he says. “They would never be aggressive.” Then a different bird descended on his fields. Over the past […]
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Binoculars are a big investment for many birders. Yet we toss them haphazardly in a bag, wear them while scrambling through brush, and drop them in mud. Then there are bigger catastrophes, says Rich Moncrief, who has worked for Zeiss’s nature unit for 21 years. He’s seen them crushed under cars and chewed by hyenas.
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[ad_1] If you’re familiar with the Texas Gulf Coast, you know that our beaches draw big crowds—especially places like South Padre Island, Galveston, and Corpus Christi. What you may not know is that in the bays between the beaches and the mainland of Texas are hundreds of tiny islands that make ideal homes for nesting
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[ad_1] The Serra dos Pireneus mountain range juts out from the Brazil savanna like ancient, rusty saw teeth, all sharp edges and craggy rocks. The red dirt road that winds through Pireneus State Park to the foot of its highest peak, Pico dos Pireneus, is pocked by potholes that threaten to destroy the underside of
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[ad_1] Water is always important! So, what’s changed to make it more important than ever? Well, if the past few years are any guide, there appears to be many more circumstances occurring in nature that are making water…especially fresh, clean water…harder to come by for birds and other wildlife. Depending on the geographic location, birds
[ad_1] As long as scientists have been exploring the natural world, they’ve encountered dangers. In their quests for knowledge, for instance, Alfred Russel Wallace and Ernest Shackleton endured disease, harsh weather, and dangerous wildlife. Such perils harmed them and hampered their journeys or even halted them altogether—as when Wallace fell ill with recurring malaria in
[ad_1] A Chestnut-sided Warbler grabs a snack. Photo by Melissa Groo. From the Summer 2023 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. While warblers are prime targets for bird photographers, their habits make them devilishly hard to photograph. Tiny and constantly on the move, they’re often at the tops of trees. Even while foraging low, they have a
[ad_1] Would you stake your life on your memory? For many of us, probably not! But if forced to, how would you deal with a situation where the ability to remember where you put some food would be the difference between life and death? Well, if you could mimic a chickadee, you would simply grow
[ad_1] The San Gabriel Mountains stand tall on the outskirts of Los Angeles, providing a natural backdrop and green refuge beyond the city’s downtown skyline. The area’s national forest lands and trails make up 70 percent of the open space in Los Angeles County, and in 2014, President Barack Obama designated 350,000 acres as a national monument to
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[ad_1] In April 2022, a wildfire scorched the 15,000-acre May Ranch in southeastern Colorado—testing the sustainability of a ranching model that blends conservation, climate-change mitigation, and making a living off the land by raising beef cattle. Drone photos by Michael Sweeney. From the Summer 2023 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. The May family has a wildfire
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