with his tribute to the endangered bird species — parrots. His latest book, Endangered Parrots of the World — On Stamps, Coins and Banknotes, talks about how the parrot species exists across ...

As the HokieBird mascot at Virginia Tech, Augusta County native Amy Wells had to keep her role as “the bird” a secret from other students.

Cook moved across the country so that his cultural artifacts might enrich visitors’ experiences with the live birds. I was writing a book on the Bald Eagle and had come to Wabasha at Cook’s invitation ...

By Emily Eakin His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote. Here are the year ...

Five of the ‘alalā birds were released on the island of Maui in November, the latest effort to try to help a species ...

An erudite literary critic with an ear for language, he also wrote a raft of nonfiction books. By John Cotter In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the ...

It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...

There are two brothers in particular who like to exaggerate or fake an injury so she’s either been watching them or she’s been reading the bird book on killdeer. Either way, she’s gotten ...

“Layla and the Cat Wonderland” is available for purchase on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.

A patient who'd been hospitalized in Louisiana with severe illness from H5N1 bird flu has died — the first human death from this type of avian influenza in the U.S., the Louisiana Department of ...