New greenery in the uptown medians is attracting an abundance of birds — and a group wants to upgrade many more of the small ...

A handful of residents from unincorporated Orland Township came out Wednesday to a Cook County zoning hearing to oppose a proposed vehicle repossession business. The business is proposed for ...

In a nod to the past — the very old past — the village of Orland Park hosted a May Day celebration Saturday. The spring celebration can be traced back to Roman times, but the village’s ...

A Haast’s eagle attacks a moa pair. John Megahan, PLOS Biology, 3(1): e20 via Wikipedia under CC By 2.5 Evolution has a fondness for big birds. During the past 66 million years, repeated on ...

One of the major concerns that officials have in Orland Park is the lack of a large community gathering place. As groundbreaking for the downtown redevelopment area known as the Main Street ...

I've included here a photo of a different kind of construction — two nests built primarily of mud attached to a building at ...

New Guinea is home to some of the world’s most toxic birds. Why they contain poison, and how they withstand it is still a source of scientific mystery. The variable pitohui, a poisonous bird ...

Indiana’s skies are a nighttime highway in the early weeks of May as millions of birds make the migratory passage north for their summer homes. Herons, sparrows and buntings of all varieties fly ...

Superb starlings help care for the offspring of birds they are not related to. “To me, that sounds like friendship,” one scientist said. By Asher Elbein True friends, most people would agree ...

Headlines as of late have sounded alarms about the spread of the avian flu, known more colloquially as the bird flu. Over the last year, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, A(H5N1), has ...