An inaugural nationwide event to introduce blind people to birding drew 200 attendees, including 11 at a botanical garden in Wheaton, Maryland.

When you’re birding by ear, you use the same skills as when you’re recognizing music; listening to sounds, patterns, changes ...

In my yard in Decatur the other morning, an unseen bird in a shrub belted out something that sounded like, “Drink your teeeee!” I knew immediately that it was an Eastern towhee. Then, a loud “cheerily ...

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I’m not a bird watcher, but I’ve become a bird listener ever since downloading a bionic ear app to my phone. It lets me enter a different world, one where I’m surrounded not just by chirping but by ...

Indiana University researchers found that the total solar eclipse reset the biological clocks of many birds along its path.

Bird song is beautiful and fascinating. I love hearing the first songs of returning lazuli buntings, western tanagers and Bullock’s orioles this time of year. And it’s fun to chase down some mystery ...

The American robin may be the most recognizable bird in North America. Most kids can identify the robin by the time they are in kindergarten. This bird is featured in children’s books and is often ...

Next to insects, birds sadly seem to get short shrift from humans. We remain powerfully drawn to scenes of lions hunting in the Kalahari desert or rhinos jousting in eastern India, but remain mostly ...

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 ...