Fairbanks doesn’t need a calendar to tell us spring is here. We’ve got a better signal: the honking, bugling and chattering ...

The first large groups of swans have reached patches of open water in the Yukon’s Southern Lakes, a critical stop on their ...

Mat-Su breaks ground on Gateway Visitor Center. Ketchikan Airport revamps parking system. Trumpeter swans return to Creamer’s Field. Reindeer and muskox calves are expected at UAF.

The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo has announced the arrival of nearly two dozen animatronic dragons that are set to debut at the ...

It appears that the main waterfowl migration is over. The tundra swans have headed back to their nesting grounds in the ...

Bikers and birders, along with hikers and other outdoors enthusiasts, need to recognize they can’t win the conservation fight ...

Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge is getting ready for the spring arrival of migratory birds as annual field plowing ...

A few ring-necked ducks are bobbing and diving in the middle of Long Lake. Although called ring-necked ducks, the ring is ...

An American white pelican paddles across Clearfork Reservoir. Credit: Dave Barr. “At first, I thought it was a Trumpeter Swan,” Barr said. “That would be unusual, so I started taking pictures. “Then ...

Leslie O’Rourke is a local nature photographer known as the Swan Whisperer of Belleville after a July 2023 profile by Intelligencer/Community Press columnist Victor Schukov. Kelly Duffin is the ...

The next day, after the heavy overnight rain, the rivers were in full spring flood mode. When hiking the Mavis Trail, the Bayfield River looked more like a huge pond at Bannockburn. I half expected ...