A council said it hoped a Harris's hawk would ruffle some feathers and deter pigeons and gulls from a market after ...

Video showed pigeons fleeing a historic marketplace at the sight of a hawk brought in to scare them away. After stallholders called the birds a "serious public health risk", Norwich City Council ...

Millions are spent to clean up after the birds and to install spikes and nets to keep them from fouling transit stations and bridges. Are birth control pills next?

Chickens are adorable, but are they the right pets for you? It’s important to understand what’s truly involved in keeping ...

While Christmas decorations appear and gardens go dormant, nursery catalogs offer gardeners a preview of spring possibilities ...

On a recent walk through the woods of southern Oregon, I found myself thinking about my feelings of gratitude as I looked at ...

Stretching across 4,530 acres in the Sandhills, just 23 minutes from Fayetteville, this North Carolina state park offers ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. somehow knew, even as a little boy, that fate can lead a person to terrible places. “I always had the ...

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Introduced this month, the solar-powered owl from Portek Ltd is a life-sized bird scarer that mimics the natural movements of a predator owl to deter birds and other wildlife from devouring crops, ...

A backyard birder recently shared a striking — albeit slightly disgusting — wildlife encounter on Reddit. The post, shared in ...