A homeowner in Oakland, California is gaining attention for their enormous, 27-foot tall Agave Americana plant that is now in its once-in-a-lifetime death bloom. Real estate agent Kirsten Jordan ...

The birds amassed fans, as legions of devotees follow along on webcams each spring as falcons progress from hatching to ...

Meant to be a symbol of deterrence, Hong Kong became a battlefield. As Japanese forces closed in, a small Allied garrison ...

It was the warmest of welcomes - and the fondest of returns to a land and a people we love.” As leader of the Commonwealth, the king is Canada’s head of state, and he made the whirlwind trip across ...

In 1963 the peacock was declared the National Bird of India because of its rich religious and legendary involvement in Indian traditions The criteria for this choice were many The bird must be welldis ...

MIAMI – Flamingos, pelicans, herons and parrots are just a few of the wild birds that call Miami home, but it’s the roosters, ...

Japan does not have an official national animal, but the green pheasant (Phasianus versicolour) is widely recognised as the ...

The municipality, adjacent to Mexico City and surrounded by concrete, suffers from the heat island effect. The community came to the rescue with this accelerated tree planting method ...

Last December, outside a federal detention center in Tornillo, Texas, Yolanda Chávez Leyva stood witness. A barbed wire fence seperated her and other demonstrators from a militaristic tent city that ...

In Japanese culture, the heron is said to represent purity, nobility, and grace. The bird is also widely considered to symbolize divinity. Herons appear in numerous Chinese bird symbol paintings, ...

This gap in utilizing Japanese bird banding data has limited our understanding of avian movements, particularly in the East Asian-Australian Flyway, one of the world’s richest migratory ...

Japanese crested ibises once lived across Japan ... The Ishikawa prefectural government hopes the bird will become a symbol of the region’s reconstruction from the major earthquake in January 2024. In ...