On certain spring mornings, the sound that cuts through traffic on the FDR isn’t a horn but the sharp cry of a peregrine falcon. Once missing from much of the Eastern United States, these aerial specialists are now thriving above Manhattan’s glass canyons and along the city’s steel-laced bridges. Their comeback feels both improbable ...
Michigan’s rarest songbird was once a ghost of the jack pine barrens, so scarce that many experts feared a silent future. Instead, the Kirtland’s warbler staged one of North America’s most remarkable recoveries, riding decades of gritty, science-driven stewardship. The story isn’t a neat upward line – 2025 brought a sobering dip in breeding ...
High above the canyons, a shadow with nearly ten-foot wings slices across the light, and for a moment it feels like the Pleistocene never ended. The California condor is back in the sky, a comeback written through decades of audacity, patience, and careful science. Yet the same data loggers and blood tests powering this success ...
By late summer, when thunderheads pile up over Colorado’s spine, the high meadows flash like neon with paintbrush, columbine, and larkspur – and tiny, iridescent bodies flicker through the bloom. Yet the show is changing. Warmer springs and drier valleys are re-timing the mountain clock that guides nectar and the birds that chase it, nudging ...
