The musician wren is aptly-named, because these birds use the same intervals in their songs that are heard as consonant in many human cultures. This is a what composer and musicologist and a biologist ...

It looks far too tiny to produce such a song, a liquid glissando that rings through the woods. The winter wren is a little brown bird with a very big song. It’s a demitasse of a bird, weighing less ...

Deep in the cloud forests of Ecuador, on the slopes of an active volcano, there lives a chubby, unassuming looking bird known as the plain-tailed wren. As the name implies, it does not look ...

The interplay with readers is one of the most enjoyable aspects of writing this column. Several weeks ago a reader named Laura in Asheville emailed to inquire about the identity of “a little brown ...

In late morning on a bitterly cold day this week, with the outside temperature at 26 degrees, I heard the unmistakable “teakettle, teakettle” song of a Carolina wren from somewhere in my yard in ...

In the mountainous forests of Ecuador, you might hear this fast, lilting song: The melody sounds like it comes from a single bird, but it is actually sung by two: one male and one female. The couple ...

Mike Adams is a biologist, educator, researcher and author. To contact him, email [email protected]. Locally large birds like the bald eagle, wild turkey, sandhill crane, common crow and even ...

In 1953, famed naturalist Roger Tory Peterson, who originated the field guide series bearing his name, took his British colleague, James Fisher, on a 30,000-mile tour of North America. They recounted ...