Canada's Boreal Forest is not as well known as the tropical rainforests, but the a watery arctic breeding ground is the source of billions of birds that fly south and end up at American birdfeeders.

Stretching from Alaska to Labrador, the boreal forest carpets the landscape with trees, providing important habitat for numerous bird species, CBC Canada writes. The Boreal Birds Need Half campaign is ...

Several iconic Adirondack birds are in trouble, with declines driven by the size of their wetland habitats, how connected these wetlands are to one another, and how near they are to human ...

PAUL SMITHS — Two new scientific studies recently released by Paul Smith’s College Adirondack Watershed Institute and Shingle Shanty Preserve and Research Station have detected continuing patterns of ...

Knowing approximately how many individuals of a certain species are out there is important for bird conservation efforts, but raw data from bird surveys tends to underestimate bird abundance.

Leading bird and nature groups are trying to save what they call North America's "bird nursery." They want the Canadian and U.S. governments to protect at least half of the continent's boreal forest ...

LONG before Lewis and Clark made their way to the Pacific Coast, members of the diverse indigenous cultures who lived on the rivers and deltas of the region were awakened on spring mornings by the ...

Two-thirds of North America's birds, or hundreds of species, will be squeezed by shrinking habitats if climate change continues at its current pace — especially Arctic birds like the snowy owl, boreal ...

Ice on the lake and huge floes of fish are making for fabulous gull-watching at the East 72nd Street warm-water release site in Cleveland's Gordon State Park. Jen Brumfield led a Local Patch birding ...

One to three billion birds flock to the North American boreal forest each spring to find habitat for summer breeding, and their lives depend on the forest being there for them. and receive a Canada ...