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 was once thought that only male songbirds were capable of song. However, in 64 percent of all songbird species, the females sing. Professor Naomi Langmore first made this discovery by recording a ...

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 ...

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 ...

On these cool, late autumn days, when most birds have ceased singing and a hush has fallen over the landscape, the Carolina wren still enlivens our neighborhoods with vibrant, full-throated song.

It’s time for another chapter in our birds-at-home exploration. Today’s familiar companion: wrens. Let’s start at the beginning. Would you know one if you saw one? Wrens are diminutive brown birds ...

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 ...

Using a horror film to bring your date closer is a classic move in the teenage playbook. Now, a study of Australian birds finds that other animals use the same "scary movie effect" to attract female ...

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 ...

Doesn't everyone love wrens? Here, three species brighten our days. Year-round, only one stays. Another comes in summer to raise families. Now, with winter setting in, the one most rare has arrived.