Despite burning hundreds of miles away, Canadian wildfires have become a familiar source of disruption in New York state.

ITHACA — In June of 2023, more than 100 wildfires raging in Quebec spread a haze of thick smoke over New York state. The smoke blotted out the sun above John Boyd Thacher State Park, tinted the air in ...

On a hazy day in June 2023, doctoral students Trifosa Simamora and Timothy Boycott noticed that the birds at their field site had gone quiet. Now in a study published in Biological Conservation, they ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is offering tips on backyard bird feeding this summer.

Stacker compiled a list of the most common birds seen near feeders in New York using data from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Project FeederWatch. Birds are ranked by the percent of sites visited ...

A new study finds wildfire smoke makes birds harder to spot, as many species sing less or hide in tree canopies.