CHICAGO — While on a recent visit to the Chicago Botanic Garden, Ann Harness spotted a creature she’d never seen before. The tall brown bird with a long bill looked like a cross between a rail and a ...

While spring migration is celebrated as a great time to spot colorful birds, there are also plenty of unique songbirds and other species you can see in the late summer and fall in southwest Illinois ...

Birds that call Illinois grasslands and wetlands home are in serious decline, according to a new conservation report. Why it matters: Birds are indicators of the overall health of their habitats and ...

(NBC Chicago) — More than four million birds crossed Illinois Saturday night into Sunday morning and more are expected in the coming days as an annual spring migration of birds over the United States ...

Millions of birds crossed over Illinois overnight in their spring migration, and “Migration Alerts” are active as those flights will continue. According to Birdcast, more than 22 million birds crossed ...

Illinois Beach State Park is a bit like someone took Big Marsh Park, Montrose Beach, and Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie and mashed them together like an early-2000s RJD2 banger. Located just south ...

BREESE, Ill. -- It looked like something out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie: hundreds of dead birds covering JoAnn Thole's lawn in this southwestern Illinois town. "I've got 117 pounds of dead birds -- ...