Watching birds in your backyard during the spring is a fun pastime. If you can't see them, you can still identify them if you ...

“In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,” the saying goes. The same may be said of birds. That’s because spring is when most birds turn to family obligations—they mate, ...

Spring birdsong signals safety and eases stress, and recent research shows female songbirds also sing to defend territory, ...

We have been talking about spring for many weeks now and it’s finally here! Between warmer weather and the chorus of birds singing it’s official! I think you would agree with me that with the arrival ...

Despite it being the middle of February, male songbirds are tuning up their courtship melodies as they prepare to woo females for mating. Their preliminary singing bouts start at daybreak, but their ...

Editor's note: This following edition of Nature News is a 2017 column, with 2024 updates, including a reference to our most recent snow storm. An internet outage prevented Susan Pike from writing a ...

Spring has sprung, and nature offers us the fragrant bloom of flowers in vibrant colors, chirping birds, love in the air and longer days. The beauty of spring has arrived. With its magic and its ...

What Colors Are Canaries? In the wild, canaries flaunt a vibrant yellow color with undertones of green and black. In ...