Forty third grade students from Mahan Elementary School, in Norwich, were treated to a bird ecology field trip program at the Audubon Center in Pomfret, on Oct. 25. The program was sponsored by the ...

The luck of being in the right place at the right time can bring memorable experiences. So it was that, after a lifetime of watching birds, finally I saw baby bluebirds fledge the nest. Oh, sure, I've ...

These lessons were designed to accompany parts three, four, and five of the PBS Life of Birds series. Although this lesson plan was primarily developed for grades 9-12, teachers of elementary or ...

My patient is a bird, a 20ish year old Amazon Parrot ( There are many different species, this was a Blue Fronted). The human that presented the bird was very upset. The bird was his dads'. The father ...

Now is the season for baby birds, whose births are as miraculous to me as the birth of human babies. How astonishing that a female bird can lay a beautiful oval egg encasing an embryo that develops ...

I've been out doing chores with the sunrise a few times in the past couple of weeks. I love that time of day. The light is gorgeous. Dew dots the grass. It's cool and calm. There's something soothing ...

Ask a gardener what they would love to have more of in their yard this season, and you’re sure to hear heirloom tomatoes, coral bells, hostas, daylilies, all of the above. Me? I’m aiming for more bugs ...

At first, it was just an unnatural morning quiet that residents noticed. Then birds were found dead by the hundreds. Some people said they saw them dropping from the sky. Locals reported that, ...