UND grad student Ashlyn Herron’s research employs the use of autonomous recording units, or ARUs, to record bird presence on ...

The results are in on the long-running breeding duck survey, where biologists count ducks in social groups by species and ...

Two North Dakota judges ruled against Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions, allowing lawsuits by landowners to proceed. North Dakota landowners are challenging Summit's carbon capture pipeline ...

For the 2023-2024 school year, North Dakota ranks 40th among all states and the District of Columbia. In 2022-2023 North Dakota was ranked 37th.

About a week ago, Shianne Hunnicutt spotted a yellow bird at her feeder, and she asked if anyone on Facebook knew what kind it was. She quickly got an answer: A Yellow Grosbeak, rarely seen ...

There are a lot of different aspects of birding that make the activity rewarding. These include getting a great look at some species, getting a great photo, finding a rare bird, seeing a “lifer ...

According to The Argus Leader, bird flu affected more than 3.96 million birds last year, more than double the number of flu-hit South Dakota poultry during the 2014 to 2015 outbreak.

The Western Meadowlark, state bird of North Dakota, was studied during research on the prevalence of grassland birds in fields of corn and soy beans in North Dakota used for biofuels. Credit: Jon ...

The study, published in the journal Ecological Applications , drew upon data from the North American Breeding Bird Survey and crop data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to determine how ...

North Dakota’s landscape has been extensively altered by agriculture and urbanization. More than half of North Dakota’s native prairie and wetlands have been converted to cropland or development.

“North American grassland birds have experienced more population loss in recent decades than any other category of bird,” said Max Post van der Burg, USGS biologist and the lead author of the study.