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Black, brown, white and gray are the dominant tones of Vermont's natural landscape in the first few months of the year. Birds provide a welcome...

Wildlife experts expect some behaviors to change during the eclipse, such as frogs' mating calls shifting from the evening to mid-afternoon on April 8.

ST. ALBANS — Friends of Northern Lake Champlain will welcome its first executive director on Sept. 1.

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   GRAFTON — Spring is a great time to tune in to the birdsong happening all around us, and The Nature Museum in Grafton has two upcoming events to help sharpen your awareness and birding skills. Bridget Butler, known as the Bird Diva, is offering an online webinar on Friday, April 23 called, “A Look at Female Birds and the Founding Mothers of Ornithology.” Think of this presentation as the her-story of birding and the celebration of noticing female birds. The Bird Diva breaks down new scientific studies on female birds and sha...

Mapping birds' feeding habitats Last October, I signed up my family, with great enthusiasm, for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's yearly citizen science survey, Project FeederWatch. The premise is simple: You watch birds and report what you see. I paid the $18 fee and received a cool poster and some simple directions in the mail. I went out and bought birdseed and a bird feeder, which I set up outside our kitchen window. The only part I remember from the directions is this sentence: "Even if you only count once all season, your data are val...