Erie was perched on a sunny branch when I met her on a cold day in March. She turned her head this way and that to survey her surroundings at the Vermont Institute of Natural Sciences. She is a ...

This gorgeous adult female northern harrier shows an arc of speckled feathers that separates her face from her neck. This is the hint that she has a parabolic dish of feathers that collects faint ...

We’ve reached that time of the year when winter is starting to flex its muscles. The leaves are off the trees, snow has already been seen, the morning temperatures are frequently below freezing and ...