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A wet osprey perches on a surfboard

Land & Conservation

“I treated it like I was rescuing a small child,” says Richard Miller, who sprang into action on Folly Beach, South Carolina, to save an injured raptor

A castle on a cliffside

Travel

For a seasoned group of fish-minded travelers, a bucolic adventure comes with a taste of the royal treatment

An illustration of a white church

Arts & Culture

The sacred music of one writer’s ancestors—and the enduring power of the Charleston church—holds space for solace and survival

A blue florida scrub jay

Land & Conservation

Along ancient sand dunes, a long-studied, whip-smart bird still astonishes biologists

An illustration of two dogs in a living room; one holds a kong of peanut butter, the other has a phone

Good Dog

Between luxurious hair appointments, school acceptance tests, and expensive pranks, two pups keep their family on their toes

A man holds a hammerhead shark

Land & Conservation

A Myrtle Beach resident gets his own nature show moment

Duck decoys

The Wild South

Southern artisans and entrepreneurs: Now’s your chance to get your work seen

Bats take flight from a bridge

Land & Conservation

Near sunset on every summer night, Austinites gather to watch bats pour by the hundreds of thousands from underneath a downtown bridge

A trio of three guns

Sporting Scene

Doubling up for gobblers

A copperhead

Land & Conservation

Fact-checking an old Southern saying

A person holds up a turkey with blonde-tinged feathers

The Wild South

The wildturkeyDNA project engages hunters to try and determine why some gobblers don’t look like the others

A jockey in a red and white silk raises his arms to the sky

Sporting

The Hall-of-Fame jockey on his mission to help behind-the-scenes workers at Churchill Downs and beyond—and the unbridled joy of a Derby victory

A Belgian Malinois holds a ball in his mouth

Land & Conservation

With noses trained to find species by scent, these dogs work alongside scientists to help protect rare plants and animals

An illustration of a woman standing in a landscape under the stars

This Land

An Alabama odyssey helps fill in the blank spaces

An illustration of an adult dog showing puppies a diagram of a dog snout

Good Dog

An unending parade of rescue puppies entertain (and exasperate) a patient pup

Two shotgun shell-shaped containers of whiskey and a bottle of bourbon

Food & Drink

Ducks Unlimited and World Whiskey Society collaborate on a pair of bottles for waterfowl lovers

Three photos of birds: cerulean warbler, burrowing owl, scarlet tanager

Seven Southern

Rare, secretive, or just plain beautiful, these species are a treat to behold

The exterior of a steel-sided pyramid

Travel

The landmark Memphis retail complex, which turns ten this month, is an unexpected place to enjoy the great indoors

An illustration of a hand holding a wingbone call with a quilt-like display of wildlife around it

Sporting

Fifty years after receiving a handmade wingbone call, an outdoorsman remembers the legendary biologist Wayne Bailey, who gave voice to eastern wild turkeys

A Chuck-will's-widow on a branch

Land & Conservation

These two nightjars—mainstays of the Southern soundscape—are easily confused