Word from the Smokies: What we can learn from wild turkeys
If you plan to travel around Western North Carolina or East Tennessee to visit friends or family and eat turkey for the coming Thanksgiving holiday, t...
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If you plan to travel around Western North Carolina or East Tennessee to visit friends or family and eat turkey for the coming Thanksgiving holiday, t...
To support and nurture new birders as they test their wings and take flight into the pastime, three different birding organizations exist in the region.
There is a hobby that has really taken hold in the United States over the past several decades and that is birdwatching, or birding for short.
Word from the Smokies: Park birds may have benefited from Clean Air Act By Frances Figart, GUEST COLUMNIST © Neal Lewis, NPS | N. Lewis Warblers like the Black-throated Green Warbler are at the highest risk of illness and death from ground-level ozone, which not only harms avian respiratory systems but also damages vegetation that they depend on for food and shelter. Photo courtesy of N. Lewis. The World Wildlife Fund’s Living Planet Report released in September of 2020 brought the sad news that population sizes of mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, and amphibians have decli...