When elk were restored to their native habitat in Missouri in 2011, the 800-pound creatures thrived. Now the U.S. Forest Service and Missouri Department of Conservation hope for an equally successful ...

If you see a very agile, active little bird hopping down a tree trunk headfirst, or hanging upside down, it is probably a nuthatch; maybe a red-breasted or a white-breasted nuthatch. I’ve always ...

Jill Danielsen, program coordinator and naturalist at Quarry Hill Nature Center, holds a red-breasted nuthatch bird before the banding it. Danielsen led a bird banding program at the nature center ...

The presence of this nuthatch is typically announced by its nasal calls. The red-breasted nuthatch has the un­usual habit of smearing resin around the entrance hole to its nest, presumably to deter ...

At one time no longer found in Missouri, the brown-headed nuthatch is making a recovery with a little help from a multi-agency program. Short-leaf pine woodlands across the Missouri Ozarks were cut ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3/Edited News Release) - The Missouri Department of Conservation and partners are planning to reintroduce a locally-extinct bird species to the Ozarks later this month.

Howard Youth is senior editor at American Bird Conservancy. Hurricane Dorian’s catastrophic pass over the northwestern Bahamas leaves us heartbroken for those who lost their lives, family and friends, ...