Over 90,000 people have signed a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals petition against deer hunting in Sapsucker Woods, a Cornell-owned sanctuary which currently permits bow hunting to regulate ...

A trip to the Ithaca area usually includes seeing waterfalls, exploring downtown, and of course, two college campuses. But on the outskirts of town, sits the Cornell University Ornithology Lab and ...

About 47 million people in the United States participate in birdwatching each year Average age of a birdwatcher is 53 Nearly 500 species of birds have been spotted in New York state The senses come ...

Sapsucker Woods is also home to Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology. “The Cornell Lab is a nonprofit, member-supported organization whose mission is to interpret and conserve the earth’s ...

The first chick hatched yesterday at 11:04 a.m. PT in the Great Blue Heron nest at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Sapsucker Woods Sanctuary in Ithaca, New York. But if you missed it, there are four ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The contents of the world's largest collection of nature sounds and videos of birds in their natural habitats soon will be accessible to the general public via the Internet, thanks to ...

What dictionary does Cornell use? I ask because when I was an undergrad there, “sanctuary” meant “a place of refuge or safety.” Apparently, someone’s using another definition, one that says giving ...

Cornell University alumnus Bill Maher has sent a letter to his alma mater opposing the deer hunt that the school is allowing in Sapsucker Woods, its 226-acre wildlife “sanctuary.” “What dictionary ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has set up two neat, 24-hour cameras on nesting birds in the Ithaca area. One is on a red-tailed hawk nest. The other is keeping watch on a great blue heron nest. The ...