I usually write answers to kids’ science questions early in the morning. I like how it’s so quiet – except for my bird neighbors singing and singing. I asked my friend Jennifer Phillips what’s going ...

Have you heard? Bird songs are filling the landscape as we progress through spring and migrating songbirds return to their ...

The sounds of birds singing in the morning might serve as your unofficial (and sometimes unwelcome) alarm clock. But why do they always seem to be especially lyrical at the start of the day? Known as ...

Rachel Carson’s landmark 1962 environmental science book Silent Spring was an investigation of the environmental harm caused by the use of the synthetic pesticide DDT. The book took its title from the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. You know that small talk you have with people you don’t know too well, so ...

Song thrush Championed by Cannelle Tassin de Montaigu, Research Fellow in Ecology and Evolution, University of Sussex When ...

Few birds feel more like spring than the American Robin. While some robins stay through winter, large numbers return north ...

I stroll through my densely wooded neighborhood at dawn as the earth awakens to the chittering, chattering and singing of chickadees, titmice, cardinals and other songbirds. Thier melodies greet the ...