The NFL Draft is full of unexpected twists and turns, shocking selections and puzzling slides. Almost no one knows what will happen when the three-day, seven-round event kicks off each year. Thanks to ...

The stakes are low but the reward is high when it comes to bird-watching. Which makes it a perfect hobby. Sure, sometimes you’ll buy a really snazzy bird feeder and bags of mouthwatering bird food, ...

More than 20 species of bird around the world use a similar “whining” alarm call to warn birds like cuckoos are around. The call seems to be understood across species, and its specific use hints at ...

In many parts of Africa, humans cooperate with a species of wax-eating bird called the greater honeyguide, Indicator indicator, which leads them to wild bees’ nests with a chattering call. By using ...

Other than cars, the thing I hear most often at home is birds. I live in Southern California, in a relatively suburban neighborhood, outside of an even more metropolitan downtown. I don’t get the ...

My first thought of Merlin’s hearing a bird from another continent was that it was an escapee … from a zoo or from an owl collector. But often, these foreign birds are only recorded once and there’s ...

Springtime and the birdies come easy. It’s the time of year when the sweet sound of birdsong tickles my eardrums as the sun rises and shines me way too early. But the early bird gets the best bird ...