The planet’s birds make a lot of different sounds communicating a wide variety of messages. The petite Black-capped chickadee emits a high noise that tells predators to scram. Hungry Pileated ...

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 ...

For those birds who don’t fly south, they’ll have a special treat courtesy of Chestnuthill Township Park. Steve Baade, ...

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

I’m a summer guy. If you asked me if I would rather be outside in 100 degree heat or in 15 degree cold, I’ll be happy to sweat. To me, the calendar seems unfair. I feel like we get six months of ...

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I’m used to the winter conversation of chickadees around the feeder and woods, the cawing of crows and blue jays in the yard, and the high-pitched calls of golden-crowned kinglets sounding from the ...

But Carter said it sounds like a congested version of the call of its ... The black-billed magpie, however, is Carter's pick, mainly because it's truly a Western bird, he said. The chickadee and blue ...

Birds, it turns out, are actually brainiacs ... comparative psychologist Irene Pepperberg taught to reproduce English sounds (Pepperberg emphasizes that Alex did not actually learn the English ...