April is known for many happenings. It is the month of warming temperatures that lead to thawing. (With a deep snowpack, this could cause flooding.) But it also is the month when we see many migrant ...

March is a great time of year for people across the United States. The snow begins to melt, temperatures rise, and many birds ...

I was out back early this morning, drinking coffee and recording the morning chorus of bird songs with Merlin, the Cornell Lab birding App. There is a feature in Merlin called Sound ID that listens to ...

In the last column, we talked about the wintering song sparrows bursting into song with the earliest glimmer of spring hope.

In early March, birds that have been gone all winter begin appearing at my feeder. One of the earliest of these spring migrants is a brown-backed sparrow with a white ...

No matter how you translate this sparrow’s song, it’s a sweet and welcome addition to the spring aural landscape. The white-throated sparrow also has a close relative that is a little less common. The ...

Watching birds in your backyard during the spring is a fun pastime. If you can't see them, you can still identify them if you ...