Here's how to tell Michigan’s trumpeter and tundra swans from invasive mute swans, and how to report sightings to help protect wetlands.

In early morning at Little Swamp Sanctuary in western Midland County, we can see the far shore of the wetland, almost one half mile away, through a path of trimmed open space where we have a seep or ...

There’s good news and bad news when it comes to endangered species in Michigan. The bad news is there are 407 species in danger. The good news is 36 species have been removed from the list, including ...

MUKWONAGO, Wis. — The swans that inhabit Grace Graham’s poetry are white as fresh linen. They glide across Phantom Lake like elegant apparitions, paddling webbed feet into stanzas she writes before ...

All around the house, blackbirds sing at the crack of dawn, the flock waxing and waning in size, gathering new members and losing others as they flit, flirt, pair off and wander away to find their own ...