Keep black flies away with these effective strategies. Learn how to repel and prevent black flies from bothering you during ...

The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...

North Beach Provincial Park is a small - but gorgeous! - day use park, with 2 km of sandy beach. Here's everything you'll need to know! Back in the spring - while staying at both Presqu'ile Provincial ...

Tunnelling with the fervour of an invading army, the millions of insects displace so much earth that pavements above them ...

At the Malan Mine in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi province, a group of new "workers" has just reported for duty. But instead of helmets and headlamps, these workers come equipped with sensors, ...

The 12th annual Unicoi County Summer Count took place Saturday, June 14, with 15 observers in six parties. Sharp-eyed ...

Once I studied her description of the birds in question, I felt confident that the visitors were Northern flickers, a member of the woodpeckers family, albeit a less than typical member of the ...

Flickers are a large type of woodpecker with bright reddish orange patches under their wings and tail feathers that are mostly only visible in flight. One of these birds, perched on and drinking from ...

Other sightings at Sandy Neck included 150 long-tailed ducks, 137 horned grebes, 2 Northern harriers, and a brown thrasher. The first ruby-throated hummingbirds were reported from several places ...

A pair of northern flickers provided a bit of colour and entertainment as they whirled through the air and weaved among trees Sunday, April 13. The annual spring ritual is a familiar one to anyone ...

While studying some of the birds feeding in my backyard, I saw a small woodpecker that acted and looked like a downy. The only problem was that it had an almost black belly instead of a white one ...

The northern flicker is a remarkable-looking bird. They are dressed as if going out to a Halloween party with a boldly spotted breast, a scarlet slash across the back of the head, a serious-looking ...