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• Forests Rise Woodcocks Fall

  [10/1/1997 ] The return of mature forests in the East, good news for most wildlife, may be bad news for this scrub-loving bird Read Full Story>

• Eating on the Run

  [10/1/1997 ] The return of mature forests in the East, good news for most wildlife, may be bad news for this scrub-loving bird Read Full Story>

• Bullies of the Bird World

  [8/1/1997 ] Some cuckoos apparently make an offer other birds can't refuse: Hatch my egg or else! Read Full Story>

• Finding Beautiful Facts in Feathers

  [8/1/1997 ] Through new studies of bird plumes, science sleuths are solving some perplexing mysteries about avian migration patterns and the effects of pollution Read Full Story>

• Life in the Fast Lane

  [6/1/1997 ] Scientists are finally learning how tiny hummingbirds survive in their world of incredible extremes Read Full Story>

• Twilight Of Americas Grasslands

  [4/1/1997 ] From Maine to Colorado, mounting evidence indicates that many grassland bird species, like this Henslow's sparrow, are disappearing as fast as the prairies that support them Read Full Story>

• Secret Life of the Spectacled Eider

  [4/1/1997 ] Study of a threatened duck takes the author and other scientists to the edges of our last frontier and beyond Read Full Story>

• Super Bird

  [2/1/1997 ] More powerful than any other North American owl, faster than a scurrying lemming, able to withstand Arctic cold, the snowy owl is the Far North's toughest bird Read Full Story>

• The Bizarre Life of the Harlequin Duck

  [12/1/1996 ] Biologists are still baffled by a duck that would rather swim than fly and that migrates east and west instead of north and south Read Full Story>