“The 12 Days of Christmas” is a song my in-laws love to hate. Unfortunately for them, it’s a song I’ve always loved. (Ross, I await your text message.) Although I enjoy it, I’ve never thought about ...

That old English Christmas carol about 12 days of gifting holds certain intrigue for birders. After all, seven of the 12 gifts were birds. First published in England in 1780, “Twelve Days of Christmas ...

As I have noted before, the most ecologically relevant song of Christmas season is "The Twelve Days of Christmas," the one that starts off with a partridge in a pear tree as the first of many gifts.

There’s a Christmas song titled "The Twelve Days of Christmas" that mentions a partridge in a pear tree. Did I find one in a Southeast Missouri fence row? The answer is no. Although there is a ...

Partridges live in Eastern Washington, the nation’s No. 1 pear producer. Even so, you will probably never see a partridge in a pear tree. How could that be? After all, the repetitive first line of the ...

December is National Pear Month, not just because we hear about them in a famous Christmas carol, but because most of the varieties are in season. There are six main states in the U.S. that produce ...