Why Maryland chose the blue crab as its state crustacean, connecting Chesapeake Bay culture, watermen, and conservation ...

Blue Spring State Park is Florida at its finest. Located west of Orange City and north of Orlando, the 2,600-acre destination centers around the eponymous first-magnitude spring that discharges more ...

Red snakes are perhaps the most visually stunning of these intriguing reptiles, drawing attention with vibrant shades of ...

Conservationists are racing to save the manumea, a chicken-sized bird that lives only on two Samoan islands, from extinction ...

It’s that time of year: the Christmas Bird Count, when birders go out in flocks to record all the birds they see in a single day. The data collected during this annual tradition gets compiled by the ...

Logistics tend to bump up the price of visiting the Caribbean. But the dual-nation island of Dutch St. Maarten and French St. Martin offers an advantage: It’s a transportation hub for the Leeward ...

Every year, the Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count draws tens of thousands of birders (and sometimes “SOBs” and “FOBs” — ...

New hotels, big events and fast-growing destinations make Central America one of the most exciting regions for travelers to ...

Road trips between the notoriously narrow country's Pacific and Caribbean coasts, reveal secret villages, untouched isles, ...

You'll feel like you're vacationing in two totally different parts of Texas when you visit this city's boardwalk marina and ...

To gasps of delight, our guide Nestor Toussaint points out the St Lucia parrot, the island’s vibrant, vocal national bird and one of the rare and endangered species we are searching for on this ...