Discover Nature

This week on Discover Nature, take a moment to admire and appreciate Missouri’s many gifts from nature.Picture the vast geography of our state, as avian…

This week on Discover Nature, set up bird-feeding stations to help keep feathered friends fed through the cold season. To keep warm in frigid weather,…

This week on Discover Nature, watch for white-tailed deer in rut, and celebrate 75 years of modern deer hunting in Missouri.In the fall, fawns lose their…

This week on Discover Nature, listen for the eerie calls of bobcats in the wild.Several hundred years ago, bobcats lived throughout the United States.…

This week on Discover Nature, get outside and enjoy a show of fall foliage, fruits, fungi, and flowers. Fall color in Missouri’s trees has been off to a…

This week on Discover Nature, keep an eye to the sky after midnight and in the predawn hours, as the annual Orionid meteor shower peaks. In autumn each…

This week on Discover Nature, we’ll look for one of Missouri’s late-blooming native wildflowers. The New England aster is the tallest of Missouri’s native…

Discover Nature this week, and listen for the sounds of autumn, as a sonorous chorus of crickets carries across the night air. Frogs such as spring…

This week on Discover Nature, watch for a swift-flying migratory duck traveling through Missouri from the north. Blue-winged teal breed all across North…

Celebrate the arrival of autumn this week, and watch for a variety of ripening tree nuts falling to the ground. Many Missouri native trees produce this…