The eagles find themselves in an environmental updraft of sorts since the early 2000s, when the federal government took the ...

Officials urged residents of the Chicago area not to touch -- or let their pets touch -- dead or sick birds as a bird flu ...

The American bald eagle is making a comeback. The birds of prey had been headed towards extinction, but conservation efforts ...

A mix of outdoors stories from Illinois, including information on nominating the Illinois Outdoor News Person of the Year ...

A bald eagle that was hit by a car near Nevada has passed away. The Story County Sheriff's Office found the injured eagle on ...

Hundreds of red-breasted mergansers have been affected by a bird flu outbreak on Chicago's Lake Michigan shoreline, raising ...

Over the weekend and early Monday morning, a large number of dead birds were seen washed up on numerous beaches along Lake Michigan in Chicago.

Gary Swick has been trying to change minds by shifting how community members see the Fox River. Instead of seeing it as just ...

From Hyde Park to Wilmette, wildlife monitors say they’ve discovered around 300 red-breasted mergansers dead or dying since ...

It’s time once again to dive into another round of quick takes on the people, places and events that were being talked about ...

There are few places better suited to bald eagle watching than here in the Metro East. The bald eagle has long been ...