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

The oxbow’s natural shoreline along the Rouge River, once eliminated for flood control, has been restored and transformed ...

McCombie urges cohesion amid party in fighting The head of Illinois House Republicans is responding to calls for her to step ...

H5N1 bird flu — have been found along the shores of Lake Michigan in the Chicago area, prompting warnings from area health ...

A conservation group in Chicago says hundreds of red-breasted mergansers, a species of diving duck that typically winters in ...

Hundreds of red-breasted mergansers have been found either dead or sick over the past few days along Lake Michigan in Chicago ...

There are other smaller lakes that, given even a semblance of winter, can provide ice anglers a lake trout fix.

While many of Michigan's summertime birds head south when it gets cold, dozens of species thrive amid the cold. What to know about feeding them.

Many people think of spring as the ideal time to find, view and photograph ducks. Although spring can be a wonderful season ...

Small birds, too, make southerly journeys for the warmer weather of frigid Michigan. Those birds, like the dark-eyed junco, ...

As slow as things were for waterfowl hunters in early December, it seemed like we might never get to the end — and yet, here ...

You, my friend, should focus on finding the local open water patches right now, where you can enjoy the abundant and lovely ...