We've never heard a voice as sweet as this one — Rumi is a star! Sure, he's also an Indian Ring-necked Parakeet and not a renowned opera singer. But you could've had us fooled! In fact, lots of people ...

Warblers in high mountain wetlands change their dawn singing with temperature, rain, wind, humidity and moonlight, showing ...

Source: Kentish Plumber, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. Songbirds seem to enjoy singing. And while a great deal of research has investigated the development and production of ...

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Binnowee Landing, a new exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo, is something of a cross between Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" and "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill." It's definitely not the place for ...

WATERVLIET — It's a long way from the tropics, but a pair of monk parakeets have set up housekeeping on a 21st Street utility pole between 2nd and 3rd avenues. The 12-inch-tall bright green birds with ...

Black-capped chickadees, dark-eyed juncos and cardinals congregate around a backyard feeder as birdseed falls to the grass like sprinkles. Suddenly, from the sky comes a flash of vivid green and blue, ...

This past week, in a quest to find refuge in nature and away from the coming apocalypse, I installed the Merlin Bird ID app to help me identify birds by sight and song. My first time using Merlin I ...

Monk parakeets have been flapping around Houston for around 50 years. Having logged just 20 years in the city myself, I feel some reticence calling them an invasive species. Yet, technically, the monk ...