The Khwai River in Botswana's Okavango Delta is a wildlife paradise, its verdant greenery home to an incredible array of animals and birds such as lion, buffalo and many types of waterfowl. Did you ...

They say we’ll always remember the moment an unforgettable event occurs. Unfortunately, it’s often associated with a terrible tragedy like 9/11, the day the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded or the ...

When going for walks in late July, much of the route is spent looking at summer wildflowers; many still in bloom while others have gone to seed. New ones are seen each day. In the woods, more moisture ...

The late July morning is fairly cool and calm with a forecast of a hot afternoon. It is a pleasant time to walk. Along my usual road route, I pass plenty of wildflowers. Fireweed and milkweed still ...

Thousands of swallows are showing up in Connecticut these days during the birds’ fall migration to the Carolinas and Gulf Coast. The Connecticut Audubon Society says the Connecticut River is one of ...

MAURICE RIVER TOWNSHIP — Local residents need not go to the Serengeti to see one of nature’s most spectacular wildlife migrations. Every August on the banks of the Maurice River, purple martins and ...

It’s certainly unscientific to refer to swallows as forming gangs, but the word seems appropriate at this time of year as swallows “gang up,” sometimes in the thousands, ahead of the fall migration.

FOR SEVERAL weeks past Barn Swallows have been gathering on overhead lines getting ready to migrate. The annual great exodus from our shores is now in full swing and is reaching its peak as thousands ...

In ‘Fattening Strategies of British & Irish Barn Swallows prior to Autumn Migration’ Lisette Coiffait, Robert Robinson, Jacquie Clark and Bridget Griffin examine the weights and ‘fat scores’ of 543 ...

Development pushed the famous swallows away from their traditional spring haven at Mission San Juan Capistrano. That left tourists searching — mostly in vain — for the city’s most famously reliable ...