Winter poses several challenges for birds. Scarce food supplies and limited water are just a few obvious challenges for nearly all of them. Extremely cold temperatures, strong winds, driving snow ...

The NEPA Bird Gang is flying high after a successful season by the Philadelphia Eagles. There’s one final mission: Winning ...

IOWA – We know taxes aren’t a lot of fun, but there is a small thing you can do to feel better about the process. Donating to ...

Birdsong is one of nature’s most beautiful and intriguing sounds, but did you know that some calls carry important meanings?

Safflower seeds deter squirrels and bully birds, but many beloved songbirds will still come to your backyard bird feeders.

Birds are always up to something, and these entries captured an array of avians doing everything from impaling prey to ...

Today, BirdNote plays on 330 stations around the country. It’s one of the most popular public radio shows in the United States, according to executive director Nick Bayard, reaching about 8 million ...

It held together as snow built up inside the bowl, and we often saw chickadees “bathing” in the snow-bowl, much as birds in ...

The out-of-doors, similarly, can be filled with silence. On a calm day our winter world can be impressively, or perhaps oppressively, quiet. The snow dampens the sound and, given that most people are ...

Even those of us who embrace winter have been homebound by recent weather, so that outdoor story material has been a challenge to obtain. Snow and extreme cold disrupted school routines, and families ...

When converted to audio signals, their sharp notes mimic high-pitched bird calls. Researchers have captured such sounds in space before, but now they have sensed the chirping waves from much farther ...

"Even a bird like the black-capped chickadee which is really tiny — less than 10 grams — its feathers can keep it really warm, even in temperatures -10F or lower, as long as the plumage is in ...