The great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) is an extremely adaptable bird with a vast range and is the most widely distributed true owl in the Americas.

Rudy wishes you a happy 2020.

A couple encounters a huge bird carrying its prey on a back road.

Banded water snake? Cotton mouth?

The galls that form on oak leaves are abnormal cells that develop when a wasp lays eggs in the leaves.

The green lynx spider protects its nest until its young hatch.

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a nature-filled New Year.

Mole crickets are cylindrical-bodied insects with small eyes and shovel-like fore limbs highly developed for burrowing. They are present in many parts of the world and where they have arrived in new regions, may become agricultural pests.

A listener reports finding a nest of baby yellow-bellied sliders burrowed in the ground near a pond.

Winter begins tomorrow.