Land management is essential to bringing back ruffed grouse.
Snow Birds
When deep winter sets in, it’s prime time for birdwatching. Temperatures are dipping below zero. A blanket of snow and ice is edging down the hillsides and gathering in the hollows. The world is still, a portrait in blacks and grays, whites and browns. It’s deep winter in West Virginia,
February 2017 Photo Gallery
Photographed by Joey Herron Check out more at flickr.com/photos/wvbirdman
A Boy and His Bird
The ancient art of falconry lives on with a West Virginia teenager. For more than a millennium, people in Japan and China have used aquatic birds called cormorants to help them catch fish. A fisherman ties a hemp snare around a trained bird’s throat so that, when the animal dives