My favorite part of watching birds in spring isn’t about watching them at all — it’s about listening. Many of the assorted sounds we refer to generally as “calls” are not season specific. Alarm calls ...

“In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,” the saying goes. The same may be said of birds. That’s because spring is when most birds turn to family obligations—they mate, ...

The saying about March coming in like a lion could easily apply to the blustery winds and dust storms that not only characterize our last few weeks of winter in southern New Mexico but also may ...

Billions of migratory birds pass through the night sky each spring and fall. Birds use stars to orient their journey between summer breeding grounds and winter feeding grounds. The artificial lights ...

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A new study of North American songbirds finds that birds can't keep up with the earlier arrival of spring caused by climate change. As a result, they're raising fewer young. By the end of the 21st ...

Just as tourists are making their return to Summit County to kick off the summer this Memorial Day Weekend, millions of birds are also making an annual migration to nest and breed in Colorado’s Rocky ...

Dan Mennill receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). University of Windsor provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. University of ...

Enjoying Spring From Quarantine You may be trapped inside, but outside, it’s bird migration season. Flowers are blooming from coast to coast, and even the bees are out getting ready for a year of ...

The scarlet tanager, seen here, eats insects and fruit. You can see it this spring in Kentucky. Ronan O'Carra, Central Kentucky Audubon Society As many as 3 million birds have flown through Lexington ...

Thanks to our late-winter snows and not-so-welcome spring rains, our roads have not been the easiest to travel lately. That has made it hard to get out and enjoy some of the early signs of spring. But ...