The country won't deteriorate any faster if you take a few hours to enjoy 'a sport that requires no athletic skill.' ...

A lot of birds are shifting their range in response to warmer temperatures. That means bird watchers are seeing new species in their yards.

When you can think of nothing else to put in your bird feeder, these fruits come as a handy option, combining both taste and ...

The male red-winged blackbird’s trill is a classic sound of the wetlands in Kamloops and the Okanagan every spring, and is part of an attempt to attract a female. The song takes one second and starts ...

In lyrical prose he describes how different birds take off and fly away when we appear, owls and buzzards with ‘a kind of disdainful calm’, but blackbirds ... trilling song that can be heard ...

MCGUIRE: Red-winged blackbirds are a sure sign spring ... Hitchcock says Carolina wrens, little brown birds with an outsized song, frequently generate midwinter calls from birders misled by ...

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer steeped in the solitude and ecstasy of Catholic mysticism: everything he wrote was ...

As dreary winter weather loses its grip and spring makes its appearance, these are the birds you're likely to see (and hear) ...

Over the years my "first bird" has evolved, I wrote, from the American robin to the red-winged blackbird to the sandhill ... cheer, cheer" song. Coming in fifth was the eastern bluebird with ...

Red-winged blackbird, sandhill crane, northern cardinal, yellow warbler, common loon and hummingbird also were on the list of indicators.

I grew up in Texas, often wakened by the rasp of blue jays outside my window, frequently entertained by mockingbirds with ...

The sound of birdsong is one of the joys of the season, but bird feeders can attract more than just our small feathered ...