DEAR BARBARA: I’m afraid the hen might be living on borrowed time. Even if you don’t see predators around, there are many out there, including coyotes, foxes, raccoons, hawks and neighborhood ...

He purchased the hen and announced to everyone in the vicinity that he was saving the hen’s life because all life is sacred. Her name literally means “life” in Hebrew.

A hen mallard flushes from her nest. One emerging concern with the USFWS data is that if mallard hen numbers are tanking, we may be overestimating their population during brooding surveys. “When we do ...

At about 7:15 on Monday morning I settled in to a comfy spot about 20 yards from the edge of the woods. My intent was to experience the migration by sight and sound from a single spot. It was chilly, ...

Then, like the heath hen, the film was largely forgotten. Martha’s Vineyard is where the last known heath hens lived, protected in a state preserve. But the last one vanished by 1932.