Naturally is a column written by a rotating cast of experts at the NJ Audubon. Within the past two months, I’ve had two ...

Used in rituals by the ancestors of the Indigenous Tupinambá people in Brazil, sacred capes made from bird feathers were lost in time and today survive only as museum pieces in Europe. Only 11 of ...

Birds of a Feather Scores of teams ... Shortly after midnight, the tallies are posted at the Cape May finish line: Lagerhead Shrikes 231 (a new World Series of Birding record), Sapsuckers 220.

A closeup of the Namaqua sandgrouse’s feather, which locks in water with straw-like structures. The Namaqua sandgrouse is a small, unassuming, and pigeon-like bird. It lives in the arid regions ...