To begin with, Gonzaga environmental studies professor Jon Isacoff offers a caution. He says there may be a point where he has to go off the record to talk about what he really thinks about, say, ...

This adult male Alder Flycatcher landed in front of me and sang his quiet little song. Finally! Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON This week I have the rare pleasure of introducing you to a new species ...

A recent study has shown that juvenile songbirds react to hearing the songs they will eventually produce as adults, even when they are as young as 12 days old. Experiments conducted on nestling pied ...

Wonderful to be home again, home again from a month away! We arrive back on May Day, the beginning of the best birding season here in the Berkshires with migrants streaming in under the cover of ...

The Olive-sided flycatcher’s body is grayish and the white belly has greenish-gray flanks, but the olive color on the sides can be difficult to see. The darker flanks do give the olive-sided a ...

Mnemonics help to remember bird names. For example, the chickadee is a well-named species, its call sounding like “chicka-dee-dee-dee.” The olive-sided flycatcher has a bit more flair to its famed ...