COLUMBIA — Children giggled as they grabbed colored pieces of clay that they would fashion into birds. Others pored over pieces of paper with pencils in hand, sketching the live birds of prey that ...

Don and Jane Veltkamp are good people. They work long and hard hours for little or no pay. They respond to calls about found, injured birds day and night. They endure injuries themselves rescuing and ...

MARION — Jane Seitz, executive director of the Illinois Raptor Center in Decatur, and Jacques Nuzzo, program director at the center, visited The Hub to teach children in kindergarten through fifth ...