Discover Nature

This week on Discover Nature, listen for wild turkeys gobbling in Missouri woods and grasslands.This popular gamebird, once a contender for our national…

Discover nature this week with a walk outdoors, and keep an eye out for blooming Eastern redbud trees (Cercis canadensis). Find these small, ornamental,…

As nighttime temperatures begin to climb and soil warms in Missouri’s woods, a fungal favorite of foragers begins to emerge. This week on discover nature,…

This week on Discover Nature, step outside and find small, blooming signs of spring in yards, gardens, and fallow fields. Dead nettle (Lamium purpureum)…

This week on Discover Nature, as we all hunker down and do our best to stay home, a reminder that we’re not alone: Missouri’s Canada geese are starting to…

This week on Discover Nature, Eastern bluebirds begin arriving at breeding locations in Missouri. The Eastern bluebird is a small thrush with a plump body…

The lonesome calls of Missouri mornings on the prairie – once produced by hundreds of thousands of birds across our state – now hold the haunting story of…

This week on Discover Nature take a walk outside, and you may hear one of the first serenades of spring on the horizon. Spring peepers have spent the…

In the heart of winter, one Missouri shrub defies the dormant season: this week on Discover Nature, keep an eye out for Ozark witch-hazel. This native…

In the waning weeks of winter, keep an eye to the Missouri sky for honking flocks of snow geese (Chen caerulescens). These medium-sized geese are mostly…