This is a good time of year in the Chicago area to monitor your plants for animal damage and to do some pruning. Other than ...

As it is expected to get pretty darn cold around here starting Sunday, I thought a column concerning feeding birds is in order.

One of life's little pleasures is to watch birds coming to the feeder in the winter. Frequent visitors to my feeder include cardinals, chickadees, tufted titmice, house finches, downy woodpeckers, ...

The northern cardinal is the state bird and lives in Illinois year-round. Clark Hudmon, owner of Barn Owl Garden Center in ...

On the Wisconsin side, a protected floodplain sheltered favorite Bald Eagle nesting trees—cottonwoods with sturdy ... Come April, he’d return, as would the birds. “I like being back here with the ...

Attract cardinals by learning what food cardinals like to eat. Offer seeds and berries, and grow native plants and shrubs for ...

Stacy Ogutu has the eyes of a red-tailed hawk and the quick note-taking skills of an educated song sparrow. Both of those ...

A rare, once-in-a-lifetime sighting of a yellow cardinal was captured on camera while in the backyard of a St. Louis ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon house cat died after eating pet food that tested positive for bird flu, Oregon authorities said, prompting a recall of raw frozen pet food that was sold nationwide.

Northwest Naturals issued a voluntary recall for a batch of pet food after a cat died of bird flu in Oregon, officials said. Testing done by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National ...

A Portland-based pet food company issued a nationwide voluntary recall after a house cat in Oregon died from eating one of its products, which tested positive for bird flu. Northwest Naturals ...