The Carolina chickadee, tufted titmouse and white-breasted nuthatch have a reputation of being fearless, curious and friendly.

As much as we love to watch birds enjoying the bounty at our feeders, there may come a day when we forget to glance out the window at them. Ennui sets in, especially in winter, after weeks of seeing ...

The red-breasted nuthatch eavesdrops on chickadee conversations to get advanced notice of predators like pygmy owls. Cephas via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Black-capped chickadees have a ...

If Dr. John Watson had been chronicling the work of Christopher Templeton rather than the exploits of Sherlock Holmes, he might have entitled the latest research by Templeton "The Adventure of the ...

Like human code-breakers intercepting secret messages, red-breasted nuthatches have evolved ways to extract hidden information about threats from predators from the seemingly indistinguishable alarm ...

I love to visit the oak woodlands at any season. There’s always something going on, between migratory birds and the year-round presence of titmice, chickadees, jays and white-breasted nuthatches. This ...

They know what they’re doing and they do it with dash, style and, frankly, charisma. Ask just about anyone to list their five ...

As the yellows, rusts and oranges of the leaves fade to brown and fall to the yard, a blue jay lands on a feeder filled with sunflower seeds. It pops one, two, three, four, five, a total of 10 seeds ...