Being an expert birdwatcher is more than a hobby. It’s a pastime that may alter the structure and function of your brain. And these changes may enhance cognition even as you age, new research suggests ...

The crossroads quilt block is a great way to showcase a variety of fabrics. Feel free to use precuts or select fabric from your stash. This block is made using just two basic units arranged just so to ...

Abstract: Data archived by the United States radar network for weather surveillance is useful in studying ecological phenomena such as the migration patterns of birds. However, all such methods ...

Lightweight in summer, cozy in winter—these 100 percent cotton quilts do it all. Because it’s lightweight, it stays on my bed all summer long as a topper (I’m not a one-sheet sleeper). Once the ...

Abstract: Effective bird repellent systems are crucial for mitigating the negative impacts of birds on agriculture, aviation safety, and urban infrastructure. This article presents an Internet of ...

Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect? In a new study published in Citizen Science: Theory ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - The Bird Block Quilt As You Go workshop is coming to Crisp Museum. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, March 14, people can stop by the museum on the Southeast Missouri State ...

Since the first avian influenza outbreaks hit the U.S. early this year, health and agriculture experts have struggled to track the virus’s spotty path as it spreads in dairy cow herds and an unknown ...

Tiny, black-capped chickadees have big memories. They stash food in hundreds to thousands of different locations in the wild – and then come back to these stashes when other food sources are low. Now ...

Explore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States. Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women looks beyond quilting as a utilitarian practice. It reveals historical quilting ...

As a hobby, quilting is often about remembering loved ones. Today almost a million Americans make some kind of quilt, including replica Revolutionary War quilts, and, increasingly Underground Railroad ...