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Birds & Birding

Growing Up Osprey: Wildlife Reality TV Returns to Osprey Cam

Wildlife

The Skeleton Revealed: Vertebrates As You’ve Never Seen Them Before

Wildlife

When Is a Black Bear Actually a Blue Bear?

Wildlife

Elk in the Neighborhood: On Conservation and Lost Hope

From the Field

Ten More Field Guides and References for the Serious Naturalist

From the Field

A New Life for Bighorn Sheep in the Land of Laughing Waters

Ideas

Unlock a New Way of Seeing the World as a Master Naturalist

Opiliones, Eupnoi, F Sclerosomatidae, Leiobunum aldrichi, male. Note that the fang-like appendages near the mouth are the chelicerae, used for catching prey. Photo © Marshal Hedin / Flickr through a Creative Commons license

Wildlife

Daddy Longlegs Won’t Kill You

Ideas

Three Great Fall Reads: Natural Page Turners

Birds & Birding

Purple Martins: The Bird That Relies on Human-Built Nests

From the Field

The Secret Lives of Horseshoe Crabs

Birds & Birding

The Battles of Song Sparrows: How a Scientific Outsider Changed How We Study Birds

Ideas

Ginseng Digging: Local Traditions and Global Markets for Appalachia’s Medicinal Plants

Ideas

Nature Books Have Never Been This Fun: 6 Great Summer Reads