Despite their desperate-sounding pleas, any young bird you come across probably doesn't need your help - but there are situations where there is something you can do. Katrin Requadt/dpa Chirping and ...

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 ...

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 ...

For three decades, fans of Bird Talk magazine have dutifully collected issues for their articles and centerfolds. But the September issue is the last that will appear in print, leaving disappointed ...

People communicate meaning by combining words according to syntactic rules. But this ability is not limited solely to humans: A group of evolutionary biologists have discovered that Japanese great ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) ORNITHOLOGIST, VLADIMIR IVANOVSKY, SAYING: "First, I thought up the theoretical method of attracting birds of prey. For this, you need to know the biology of the birds, so I ...

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 ...