A burglary in the Bahamas and the threat of a volcano eruption on the island of Guadeloupe set in motion one of the fastest and most widespread invasions of a non-native wildlife species — a bird, in ...

Probably no species has conquered North America more quickly than the Eurasian collared dove. It took humans several millennia to overrun the continent. Rats, which came with European colonists, did ...

As I passed the kitchen window the other day, I glanced at our bird feeder. I was startled to see a pair of birds slightly larger than the normal visitors. I reached for the binoculars and beckoned to ...