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Highlights from the USGS Bird Banding Lab (BBL) 2023 fall migration station.

You can tell a lot about someone’s health from their body’s waste. If you are fighting an infectious illness, you flush away more than yesterday’s...

The ocean covers 71% of Earth’s surface. We know only a small fraction of what the land beneath the waves looks like.

Although we may feel worlds apart, we are connected by migratory birds. In turn, migratory birds are connected to us and directly affected by our...

RESTON, Va. — The first widescale assessment of methylmercury in adult amphibians in the U.S. to date shows that, in amphibians, this toxic compound...

By Terry Ward

Garden & Gun, October 11, 2023

“No one has ever seen anything like this,” one expert says.

By Dinah Voyles Pulver

USA TODAY, September 30, 2023

Hurricane Idalia’s incredible influx of flamingos expanded deeper into the country over the past 10...

Science takes time.

Chesapeake Bay Program — Press Release — May 9, 2023

The report by the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee offers...

It’s estimated that more than 100,000 sea ducks are killed worldwide annually when caught in large fishing nets known as gillnets. A recent study...