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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology BirdCast Migration Dashboard provides daily estimates of how many migrating birds have passed over a location during the night. This screenshot shows an estimated nearly 2.5 million birds flew over Allen County, Indiana, between 7:40 p.m. Sept. 21 and 7:30 a.m. Sept. 22. (From The Cornell Lab of Ornithology BirdCast migration information system) The annual fall migration sends millions of birds through the Fort Wayne area as they navigate to win

A cluster of black-eyed Susan flowers add to the yellow color that dominates among prairie wildflowers along Trail 8 at Eagle Marsh off Engle Road. People usually think of Spring as the season of flowers. Nature throws off the drab cloak of winter and puts on a colorful show. But late summer and early fall equal or surpass it in habitats such as Eagle Marsh and Arrowhead Prairie. The prairie plants in Little River Wetlands Project’s (LRWP) nature preserves sleep in longer in

You can grow native plants in your yard and maximize your ecological impact by choosing ones that produce big benefits for Nature’s local food web.