The Ontario government is handing provincial parklands over to the town in hopes of boosting the local economy. Residents ...

Four piping plover chicks have hatched at Sandy Island Beach State Park in Oswego County, marking the second time this summer that a pair of the rare birds successfully nested on the beach. Ajax and ...

Retired Ontario police officer Kevin Nelson was looking for red-tailed hawks to photograph. As he swung his camera skyward, what came into focus was much more spectacular. “When I looked up I saw this ...

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived ...

The Ontario government is safeguarding waterfowl bird populations against unsafe and illegal hunting practices. Three people have been convicted of bird hunting offences and fined a total of $10,500.

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

ABSTRACT We conducted a field study to compare the effectiveness of acoustic recordings coupled with automated sound recognition versus traditional point counts in terms of their relative abilities to ...

For the teenage sons of an obsessed birder, a father’s bird-watching habit had become nerdy — until some bold jays in an Ontario park turned dubious adolescents into giggly boys. By Gustave Axelson ...

A Canadian university has started an ambitious project to catalogue all life forms using a shorthand genetic analysis called DNA barcoding, which was invented at the university just four years ago.