Every year as mid-August approaches, an office pool of sorts pops up around Hawk Mountain Sanctuary as hawk enthusiasts try to predict the first raptor that will be sighted on the first official count ...

Oct. 19—Dan Casey saw the bird first, shimmering against the distant horizon like a desert mirage. From his perch, about two miles away, it was little more than a flicker of motion sketched across a ...

Golden eagles, the bird that put Hawk Mountain on the conservationists’ map at the sanctuary’s founding in 1934, increased as ...

Held continually for the better part of the last 100 years, autumn migration hawk counts in the Lehigh Valley region record some eye-popping numbers of birds passing through the region. The counts are ...

Held for the better part of the last 100 years, autumn migration hawk counts in the Lehigh Valley region record some eye-popping numbers of birds passing through the region. The counts are underway ...

Now that it’s the middle of September yellow leaves are either on or falling off many different trees. Virginia creeper vines are getting redder and so are poison ivy vines. And wild sunflowers, ...

Data collected contributes to regional and continental conservation efforts and helps scientists track long-term population trends.

We recently got a little snow, but where I live it wasn’t much. But weather-wise, it’s gotten cold, and it’s about to get a lot colder. And we’re finally to the point where even a pot of pansies on ...

Each fall, migrating birds can be seen flying south to their wintering grounds. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation said fall is the ideal time of year for New York residents ...