"When birding or editing photos, I completely forgot about my personal issues or depressing national and global events." ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the Western Santa Cruz tortoises as critically endangered, estimating approximately 3,400 tortoises remained as of 2010. Generally, there ...

Perched on the northeastern flank of Antisana National Park, the Chakana Reserve is a privately protected sanctuary managed ...

Cañas-Valle’s discovery, described in November in the journal Ornithology, may be the first documented example of hummingbirds that nested and roosted communally. It is also notable that he found the ...

We finally did it! Leslie and I just returned from a 10-day birding trip to Costa Rica – something we had been talking about ...

For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise ...

Imagine your spark bird is the bald eagle. You thought you were applying for a summer internship with the Student ...

Four rare Western Santa Cruz Galalapos tortoise hatchlings will go on public view at Philadelphia Zoo starting April 23.

Traffic noise isn’t just unpleasant; in the Galápagos Islands, it can also make songbirds aggressive, a recent study has ...