YAKIMA, Wash. -- The amazing variety of sounds birds utter has inspired many examples of onomatopoeia, “a word that mimics the sound of objects they refer to.” Common examples referring to birds ...
Wonder about the difference between a grackle and a starling? Do colorful warblers catch your fancy? What gave the Cooper's hawk its name? Ask me -- The Bird Lady. I'm the science editor at the ...
If you’d like to see some new-to-you birds in Michigan this fall, listen for the sound of one of our most common birds: The Black-capped Chickadee. The chickadee’s namesake “chickadee-dee-dee” call is ...
A deep-voiced black-capped chickadee may wonder why other birds ignore it, but there may be a good reason behind the snub, says a University of Alberta study that looked into how the bird responds to ...
Myriad bird species will be flying through northern Illinois in the next couple of months, filling the region with bird songs as they fly to their northern breeding grounds or establish nesting spots ...
A deep-voiced black-capped chickadee may wonder why other birds ignore it, but there may be a good reason behind the snub, says a University of Alberta study that looked into how the bird responds to ...