John James Audubon, back in his 1832 “Ornithological Biography” of birds, written to accompany his landmark “The Birds of America,” was undoubtedly speaking generically of forest and field song birds ...

Hermit warblers in California have developed 35 different song dialects, apparently as a result of wildfires temporarily driving them out of certain areas. That’s a bird called the hermit warbler. It ...

These warm days of mid-May are when we see the beginning of most songbird migration. For the next few weeks, yards and woods will be filled with small, but active, insect-eating birds. Some, like the ...