What a satisfying experience to see and taste the first honey you harvest from your own beehives. That is what makes beekeeping and working with honeybees such an enjoyable and rewarding hobby. In this article …

Mushroom identification is a hobby, and foragers worldwide head out into the woods, fields and prairies looking for wild mushrooms as a hobby. Now although, finding mushrooms and fungi is actually quite easy, as they …

I promised I would finish telling you how to identify birds by their wings and feet. Again I am using Sheila Buff’s The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Birdwatching, but you can also find a lot …

With the advances of technology changing the way people interact and obtain information, it stands to reason that those in the medical field have taken advantage of the advances to benefit both patient and care …

It may be surprising to many but many bird houses on the market are not really suitable to birds. On the contrary, not only they do not attract birds but they can even be dangerous …

Honeybees have many unusual communicative skills none more fascinating than the food dance.
When a foraging bee finds a food source, she must let the other bees know its location as soon as possible. If the …

There are two basic types of telescopes: one in the reflector and the other is the refracting telescope. It is important to know the difference so the you can choose what is correct for your …

Now that the spring migration is around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about how to identify birds. I think the first thing to talk about is your field guide. We will work on …

Why do I need a wildlife survey?
Have you been asked to provide a wildlife survey, a bat survey or an ecological survey report as part of a development that requires planning permission?
There are currently many …

For over 45 years wildlife conservation projects have relied on tracking study species with various electronic devices. This is a very short listing of some of those technologies and how they are useful in wildlife …