The American yellow warbler is known for its sunny-yellow plumage and sweet song. But as any birder will tell you, they’re also fidgety. Trying to get a clear view of them is like seeing flashes of ...

The male yellow warbler sports a fitting lemon-yellow body with reddish streaking on the chest. His pleasant thin song follows a musical pattern that sounds like “sweet-sweet-sweet-I’m-so-sweet.” They ...

One rainy morning a week ago, I hear a beautiful bird song that I cannot quite identify. It’s longish, sweet and melodic. From in the bedroom, I glance over at the feeders and there’s the usual ...

I recently introduced the many autumn birds that have now returned to our latitudes, the shorebirds, ducks, raptors, sparrows and other songbirds that journey south each fall. There are many of these ...

Officially, the first day of spring was several weeks ago. However, it hasn’t felt like spring, at least not to me. The long winter just kept hanging on and on and on ... First the snow melted, then ...

What makes mountain birds sing at dawn – and why are they sometimes quiet? Ecologists explain Three species of the melodic ...