Birder's got served by this sign in Ohio. Many birders don't purchase Duck Stamps because "they don't want to be lumped in with hunters" despite the fact that 98% of the money from the purchase of a Duck Stamp goes to habitat acquisition for breeding, migration and wintering grounds.

Cuyahoga Falls City Councilman Jerry James tries to legislate keeping bird feeders clean.

A unique and mysterious guinea-pig-sized rodent, not seen since 1898 despite several organized searches, bizarrely showed up at the front door of an ecolodge at a nature reserve in Colombia, South America. The magnificent red-crested tree rat (Santamartamys rufodorsalis), stayed for almost two hours while two research volunteers took the first photos ever of a creature the world thought would never be seen again.