It’s spring, and nature is pulling me away from my computer as I write this. The sun is shining, the world is warming up, and the birds are chirping away. And that got me thinking: What if a ...

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Each spring I wake to the sound of a bird purring in my neighbor’s trees. Now, I know birds don’t purr, but that’s the best word I could come up with to describe the sound. It wasn’t chirping. It didn ...

I heard a tune playing over a grocery store’s sound system but could not recall the name of song or singer. I opened the Shazam app on my phone and nodded to myself — “You Never Can Tell” by Chuck ...

While spring and summer are the prime seasons for bird watching, our winged friends are everywhere all the time, and they often switch out with the seasons, especially during peak migration. The best ...

What does it take to receive more than 50,000 downloads in Apple’s App Store with an education app dedicated to ornithology? Sometimes, that kind of success is about a firm’s ability to be flexibile ...

Despite its brilliant plumage — jet-black wings on a crimson body — the songbird can be a hard one to spot in a forest because it prefers to stay high in the canopy. It sounds a little like a robin to ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The upcoming total solar eclipse isn’t just a phenomenon in the sky, it’s one on the ground too. In April, researchers will have a rare chance to study how plants and animals react ...