Think telling sparrows apart is just not worth the effort? Our tips might change your mind. Identify sparrows by habitat, ...

I was out back early this morning, drinking coffee and recording the morning chorus of bird songs with Merlin, the Cornell Lab birding App. There is a feature in Merlin called Sound ID that listens to ...

As I was getting interested in birds in the 1960s, I began to memorize their scientific names. This was something I believed scientists did. I didn’t realize until my undergraduate years in college ...

In early March, birds that have been gone all winter begin appearing at my feeder. One of the earliest of these spring migrants is a brown-backed sparrow with a white breast coarsely streaked with ...