In the waterfowl world, Alabama’s most abundant species, the wood duck, is not known for migrating long distances. It turns out, the wood duck migration patterns follow a “boy meets girl” scenario.

They offend our sense of what’s natural and disrupt ancient migration patterns. Yet loss of meadow and marsh breeding grounds caused dramatic declines in many white stork populations in Western ...

But the wood stork’s Everglades habitat remains threatened by poor water-management practices, which have greatly changed the natural flooding and drying patterns of the ecosystem. When this cycle is ...