The great tit (Parus major) is the picture-perfect garden bird. With its colorful feathers and melodic, two-note whistle, it ...

Flying critters don’t always have the best options when it comes to finding a home, but staff and students at Allegheny ...

On night walks through Highgate Wood, Cindy Blaney shares the whirling wonder of the often-maligned mammals with the humans ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- DVDs are still good for something from WDRB's archives takes us back to 1995. When a little boy named Chas Krish, and his buddy Michael, watched a Louisville Landmark get its ...

UW-Madison's Bat Brigade meets weekly April through October at Lakeshore Nature Preserve to collect data about different bat species on campus. The group uses a device called an Echo Meter, which ...

Somewhere in Locust Valley — we are not at liberty to disclose the precise location — there is a house with a wide wraparound porch that every spring becomes a maternity colony for an extended family ...

Rats have gotten a bad reputation over the years for being dirty, garbage-eating carriers of disease. But these ubiquitous rodents are also clever and capable of learning complex tasks, even using ...

Janet Debelak Tyburec of Bat Survey Solutions measures the ears of an evening bat at Swift River Pecans in Lockhart. These bats eat lots of different insects in the orchard. On a clear September night ...

Bat Week across Connecticut is in full swing ahead of Halloween. According to Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), it’s a chance to help create a better reputation ...

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It is Bat Week, an international celebration of the flying mammals and their importance. I visited the San Diego Zoo Safari Park to get some bat facts. Bats get a bad rap. Maybe it's Bram Stoker's ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Halloween is near, and you've probably seen bats used in home and yard displays during the past month. With that visibility in mind, the New York State Department of Environmental ...