Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

When winter is in full swing in late January and in February, numbers of Arkansans and their visitors who enjoy the outdoors go looking for eagles. A few decades back, seeing an eagle was rare in the state. Now you…[more]

Hunters and wildlife watchers are urged to help count and identify Arkansas’s wintering swan populations. Karen Rowe, nongame migratory bird program leader with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, said “Numbers of both trumpeter and tundra swans wintering in Arkansas…[more]

As bats fly close to turbines at wind energy facilities, the sudden air pressure change caused by the turbine’s rotating blades causes severe trauma to the bats’ lungs. The resulting bat fatalities occur frequently at wind farms. But the USDA…[more]

Honeybee populations have been in serious decline for years, and Purdue University scientists may have identified one of the factors that cause bee deaths around agricultural fields.

Analyses of bees found dead in and around hives from several…[more]

Bald eagles, snowy owls and a chance to get outdoors on unseasonably warm winter days drew 3,000 visitors Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 7 and 8, to Eagle Days events at Smithville Lake.

A rare appearance by snowy owls…[more]

Despite a rudimentary knowledge of bird species, I looked forward to participating in a Christmas Bird Count. Here was an opportunity to do something outdoors during a festive season when many people are putting away Christmas decorations, and trying to…[more]

Honey bees can become the unwitting hosts of a fly parasite that causes them to abandon their hives and die after a bout of disoriented, “zombie-like” behavior, according to researchers at San Francisco State University.

The phenomenon, first…[more]

When it comes to love songs, female tree frogs are pretty picky. According to a new study from the University of Missouri, certain female tree frogs may be remarkably attuned to the songs of mates who share the same number…[more]

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s Winter Bird Feeder Survey starts Jan. 5 and gives wildlife enthusiasts and their families an exciting way to kick off the New Year. Attracting birds and maintaining backyard feeders for wintering birds is popular…[more]

A new study on the endangered Ozark Hellbender giant salamander is the first to detail its skin microbes, the bacteria and fungi that defend against pathogens. The study details changes in the salamander’s declining health and habitat, and could provide…[more]