The sound of birds singing is synonymous with spring. As delightful as the tweets and chirps may be, these songs are actually tied to the birds’ survival — and a combination of day length, sunlight ...

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 ...

Each February, crowds gather at Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania to watch Punxsutawney Phil predict the weather. In 2026, the famous groundhog saw his shadow, which tradition says means six more weeks ...

My favorite part of watching birds in spring isn’t about watching them at all — it’s about listening. Many of the assorted sounds we refer to generally as “calls” are not season specific. Alarm calls ...

As we count every extra minute of sunlight during these transitional months, one Michigander is already singing from the treetops that spring has returned. But don’t get too close. They’re known to ...

As the dreary days of winter begin to fade away and we move into spring, you'll likely hear the sounds of singing birds in the trees — a sure sign of the season's arrival. Spring makes its appearance ...

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 ...

Within Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” are haunting words about a place where birds cease to sing. The cause behind the lack of singing birds was DDT, a chemical banned for agricultural use ...

Yes, there is a lot of action coming our way during the whole month of March. Spending a little extra time listening to the ...

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 ...

In preparing a talk about bird song for the March meeting of Cheyenne Audubon, I focused on about 30 birds that I think have distinct songs, or in some cases, when they aren’t too melodic, bird sounds ...