The tremolo sounds like a quivering laugh that they use when they're being disturbed. The hoot, a softer bird call, is used ...

A baby's babbling may sound like nonsense, but it's actually an extended act of trial-and-error learning. As babies produce ...

The acorn woodpecker’s social structure, known as clans, consists of a dozen or more birds that will include breeding pairs and nonbreeding helpers, but during peak acorn season they will all focus on ...

Few sights feel as wild and lively as the rapid tap-tap-tap of a woodpecker at work on a tree trunk. For garden lovers who ...

No finches yet and only a single thrush, but tuning into January’s sounds has revealed that nature is beginning to stir ...

Editor’s note: This is an updated version of a story that originally ran in 2017. Across the last century of recorded music, New Jersey has been at the forefront of just about every movement and trend ...

Whether for its textbook appearance, regional ubiquity or haunting and mellifluous call, it’s no wonder we love this winged ...

Believe it or not, but ducks have a reputation for the unexpected: bizarre and intricate mating anatomy. According to ...

Learn what a Calliope hummingbird looks like, where to find these tiny birds in the U.S., and how to attract them.

There have been only a handful of sightings of the nightjar in Northern Ireland since the 1950s.

Because their feet are not adapted to process prey items, shrikes carry large items to thorny vegetation and/or barbed wire fences and promptly impale the prey upon a thorn or barb. This behavior ...

Big Garden Birdwatch is the world’s largest garden wildlife survey. Each year, on the last weekend of January, hundreds of ...