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The common rudd is a freshwater fish that can often be spotted waiting on the Fish Doorbell's video live stream.
canals

Ring the ‘Fish Doorbell’ To Help Fish Migrate in the Netherlands

Utrecht’s Fish Doorbell has helped thousands of fish swim upstream to reproduce.
Jennifer Byrne June 8, 2023
On the nesting colony platform, a common tern watches over its chicks beside tufts of artificial grass that mimic the birds' traditional nesting habitat.
science

Maryland's Rare Seabirds Get a Life Raft and Babysitters

Scientists don bike helmets and dodge bird poop to care for a colony of endangered common terns.
Ashley Stimpson June 6, 2023
A Steller’s sea eagle near Sapporo, Japan.
science

What a Roving Steller's Sea Eagle May Tell Us About Ourselves

Thousands of miles from its native range, the raptor illustrates how attitudes toward nature vary.
Adriana Craciun May 22, 2023
Every year in the remote reaches of northeastern Georgia, shepherds drive hundreds of sheep along a dangerous mountain trail to seasonal pastures. In May and June, shepherds make the trek up to pristine summer pastures high in the Caucasus Mountains. Then, in September and October, they drive the sheep back down to the valleys below.
art

The Stark Beauty of Tushetian Shepherds’ Journey Across Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains

These stunning photographs reveal the determination and resilience of a centuries-old way of life.
Sarah Durn March 2, 2023
Nicknamed Nalangu, this leopard had just finished feeding her cub when she took a moment to stretch at the bottom of a river bed. Leopards can prove especially challenging to photograph because they're mostly active at night.
nature

Kenya’s Maasai Mara Wildlife Reserve Is a Photographer’s Playground

At least while the lions behave.
Sarah Durn February 6, 2023
Families were raised and communities created in the migrant camps of Yakima Valley, Washington.
culture

How Photos Tell the Story of a Migrant Farm Community to a New Generation

“I see the collection as a tool for uncovering what is already there."
Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing December 8, 2022
national parks

Podcast: Kasanka Bat Migration

Kasanka National Park in Zambia hosts one of the largest and most mysterious animal migrations on the planet.
The Podcast Team November 3, 2022
A levee divides wetlands and a salt pond, colored vibrant red by halobacteria, in San Francisco's South Bay.
birds

Vivid Images Capture A Stunning Shift in San Francisco's Salty South Bay

An ambitious wetlands restoration project attempts to balance a return to the area's ecological past and the realities of a changing future.
Skylar Knight August 29, 2022
A 2020 trail cam photo of Jo the deer.
science

How One Wyoming Mule Deer Won Friends and Influenced Science

Jo the deer offered researchers a look into migrations and how long it takes deer to visit a forest after a fire.
Kylie Mohr April 4, 2022
The Arctic hare BBYY traveled more than 240 miles during a seven-week period in 2019.
science

What Energized This Arctic Hare to Keep Going and Going and Going?

The animal known as BBYY traveled hundreds of miles, breaking records and shattering expectations.
Gemma Tarlach February 1, 2022
Gastro Obscura

Senegalese Nem

Senegal's popular spring rolls tell a story of war, love, and colonialism.
A cold-stunned Kemp's ridley sea turtle found on a wintry Cape Cod beach will be warmed and relocated to more hospitable waters.
animals

The Annual Airlift Saving Sea Turtles Stranded in New England

A massive human-assisted migration lands the imperiled animals back in warmer seas.
Lauren Owens Lambert January 10, 2022
Topi
South Sudan

Topi of Boma National Park

Every October, one of the largest migration of mammals in the world thunders through Boma National Park.
Frog at LaRue Swamp
Wolf Lake, Illinois

Snake Road

Twice a year, this road is closed off to allow for the migration of thousands of snakes, reptiles and amphibians between cliffs and a swamp.
After being caught on the French Atlantic coast, young European eels—known as glass eels—are transported in boxes to Germany to restock local rivers.
animals

Will These Glass Eels Beat the Odds and Survive to Spawn?

Critically endangered, and a much-sought delicacy, the animals are imperiled at every turn.
Gemma Tarlach April 27, 2021
A mounted male (left) and female American mammoth at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. Both date to around 11,000 years ago.
migrations

American Mastodons Trekked North Because of Global Warming

The shift led to local extinctions and could have important implications for species today.
Atlas Obscura September 1, 2020
This Brazilian navy ship had a strange insect encounter during nighttime operations.
islands

The Ecological Mystery of a Stink Bug Swarm Far Out to Sea

The chance encounter has led to insights on how insects make it to distant islands.
Erica Tennenhouse March 24, 2020
Ravi Pandian and Chandran (right), shopkeepers at Burma Bazaar.
markets

India Meets Myanmar at a Bustling Bazaar in Chennai

Indians who were pushed out of Burma have made this market a multicultural haven.
Yamuna Matheswaran March 12, 2020