An avid bird-watcher, Warren Wolf set out Saturday toward Octoraro Lake hoping to see a flock of juvenile little blue herons that were rumored to have been spotted in the area. What he found instead ...

A pair of naturalists spent weeks in the wilds of South Florida in the 1930s, braving alligators and snakes to find and photograph wetland and wading birds like the gangly wood stork. Unlike many of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. White storks, typically solitary except during migration, ...

I had to go a second time because my first visit to see the wood stork in Broomfield was so wonderfully rewarding. As a boy in Iowa, I saved money to buy bird books; and those bird books alerted me to ...

With long legs and large wings, the white stork is a prominent star of the pageant that is animal migration. Flying from Europe towards Africa in autumn, and then back again in spring, birds can be ...

Storks undertake long, arduous migrations every winter, meaning only the fittest can survive. This means resources are often best shared among those who benefit the most from them. High in the ...

All storks choose to migrate with conspecifics, but young storks rely more on social influences than adults do. With long legs and large wings, the white stork is a prominent star of the pageant that ...