At first I suspected they didn’t borrow from any particular bird species, Susan. I thought the electronic “chirp” may have been created out of thin air by engineers using computers. All that’s needed ...

Ornithologists say the chirping of birds at daybreak is part of their mating ritual. They tell me that increasing daylight, especially in the spring and early summer, triggers the mating instinct in ...

What a breath of fresh air it is to receive a note from someone who isn’t upset by chirping in their chimney. Usually when people hear sounds coming out of their fireplace they freak out, grab the ...

A Black-capped Chickadee, a year-round bird in Milwaukee, perches on a branch at the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center. With the sun shining a little more lately, you may have noticed more birds chirping ...

Birds use their calls to communicate, but some species are exceptionally loud, so much that their chirps, squawks, and calls can surprise or even overwhelm us. From colorful tropical parrots to ...

Cooper’s hawk (upper left), Harris’ sparrow (upper right), LeConte’s sparrow (lower left) and Wilson’s warbler (lower right) are all examples of birds that will be renamed by the American ...

You can barely hear the birds chirping in this YouTube video of a man picking some fresh ingredients for a wild salad, and yet that very sound has been identified as copyrighted material, belonging to ...

Ever wonder why cats love to chatter at birds, especially when they spot them from behind a window in your home? There are several reasons for this instinctive cat behavior, with the urge to kill ...