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Viking has announced it has taken delivery of the Viking Polaris, the company’s second purpose-built expedition ship.

As many of 3 million birds a day are flying over Forsyth County daily as another fall migration season launches.

One Sunday in September, on the small strip of beach on Long Island in the Las Piñas-Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area, we looked garbage straight in the eye.

Whats the fastest an airborne animal can go?

A new study out of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology finds that these limited altitude residencies are due to interspecific competition where individuals of different species compete for the same resources. The study, published in Science, was conducted using eBird data from 4.4 million citizen science observations of 2,879 bird species around the world.

In a watershed “human vs. machine” moment, a machine learning algorithm has detected tricky blue whale calls in sound recordings with greater accuracy and speed than human experts.

Margaret Carney notes ‘their throaty too-weedle, too-weedle and whistled teekle (are common), sometimes likened to a creaking wheelbarrow’

Hundreds of millions of birds are currently on the move every night across North America as they wing their way south during fall migration. Chicago is under a high alert Sunday, with a massive number of birds expected to pass overhead.

FILE - An osprey flies over the Chesapeake Bay on March 29, 2022, in Pasadena, Md. A new online atlas of bird migration, published on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, draws

I first heard them on Monday, Sept. 12, the unmistakable cacophony of Canada geese heading south, their honking calls urging them onward.