Scientists at the Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) University of Minnesota-Duluth are wrapping up two studies of hard-to-find animals in Minnesota -- the Canada lynx and the boreal owl. The ...

March marks the beginning of winter's end. Rough-legged hawks, northern shrikes, snow buntings and Lapland longspurs will soon be on the move, pushing north toward their still-frozen breeding grounds.

In early January, Michaela Rice, a naturalist with the Minnesota Department of Resources, received a report of a dead owl along Highway 61. It was near Gooseberry Falls State Park along the North ...