Annette Prince, director of the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors picks up a dead red-breasted merganser at 35th Street Beach ...

Black-and-white owls (Strix nigrolineata) are pictured at the Wildlife Rescue Center in Alajuela, Costa Rica, on September 16 ...

In The Place for History, a bird once found in Missouri is now officially extinct and a German immigrant who lived in the state is the first to describe it.

Some Chicago murals “are political, and some are purely beautiful, and most are somewhere in between," artist Cyd Smillie says.