Using GPS tags attached to the birds, researchers discovered some surprising facts about the long migrations that eastern whip-poor-wills make from their Midwest breeding grounds to where they winter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration, drawn and engraved, of an eastern whip-poor-will, by Richard Polydore Nodder. Florilegius/Universal Images Group ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whip-poor-wills appear in the Stephen King novel "Salem's Lot" and other works of American horror. Photo by Pixabay/Pexels In one ...

THE EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL is the kind of bird you’re more likely to hear than see. In part, that’s because they are nocturnal, actively flying and foraging for insects only after the sun has set.

The deadly 2011 tornado ripped a 38-mile swath of devastation through Hampden and Worcester counties that could be seen from space — but signs of rebirth and rejuvenation in the natural world quickly ...

Some sounds just say summer. There’s the chorus of calling insects, water lapping against the shore, the sizzle of meat hitting the grill and the hum of a lawnmower. What about the incessant, ...

MASON COUNTY, Ill. – When most people are just getting home from their workdays, I’m about to start mine. I am a researcher studying the breeding behavior of the Eastern whip-poor-will (Antrostomus ...

In one of the most haunting scenes of Stephen King’s 1975 novel “Salem’s Lot,” a gravedigger named Mike Ryerson races to bury the coffin of a local boy named Danny Glick. As night approaches, a ...

In one of the most haunting scenes of Stephen King’s 1975 novel Salem’s Lot, a gravedigger named Mike Ryerson races to bury the coffin of a local boy named Danny Glick. As night approaches, a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jared Del Rosso, University of Denver (THE CONVERSATION) In one of the most haunting ...