"Habitat often also includes stands of red cedar, pine, and hemlock, as well as cool, damp meadows," MassWildlife said.

With just a little more than a month left of spring, people are seeing more wild animals around, including coyotes.

A swallow-tailed kite continued to be seen near Santuit Pond in Mashpee, with another sighting in Marstons Mills. Other sightings at Santuit Pond included a tricolored heron and a ring-necked duck.

In recent years sightings off the coast of Maine have increased as well. While shark attacks in Massachusetts are rare, a man who was boogie boarding off Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet in 2018 ...

Over the past few years, black bears have made a comeback in Eastern Massachusetts, with sightings getting more common each season. Though once abundant throughout Massachusetts, a combination of ...

Read the heartwarming story about how the Essex County Sheriff's Department helped rescue a woodchuck in Middleton, ...

These recent sightings are compiled by Sue McGrath of the Newburyport Birders who says May is the month birders live for.

During an aerial survey on April 23, scientists with the New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life spotted over ... shipping lanes south of Massachusetts.

The hummingbirds are almost back to Massachusetts. The ruby-throated ... using user-reported sightings to map their progress. As of April 14, hummingbirds have made it as far north as New ...