© prilfish / Flickr My fishing rod twitched and I called my young son over. He began reeling and said it seemed unusual. It was. We were on a fishing…

Mustela nivalis A least weasel. © Joachim Dobler / Flickr The mammalian Order Carnivora includes some of the most dramatic creatures on the planet, the lions and tigers and bears….

If you follow bird conservation, you may have heard of mist netting and bird banding. These activities are carried out by avian researchers around the world to collect morphological measurements,…

My feet crunched on the lava path as I scanned the trail ahead. Just minutes ago, someone had asked me in the parking lot if there was anything to see…

The truck bounces along the ranch road in the pre-dawn light when a football-sized bird rockets past the headlights. “Prairie chicken,” says Kirk Feuerbacher, as he continues down the road….