Orange-crowned Warbler sitting on a branch, singing. Some of these songbirds will collect in “song neighborhoods” made of two to six males who mimic the songs of each other.© Dee Carpenter ...

As fall migration winds down, there are many ways to track where birds are going for the winter. One of the newer methods being used in Wisconsin is called the Motus Wildlife Tracking System. It’s an ...

Young, naïve starlings are looking for their wintering grounds independently of experienced conspecifics. Starlings are highly social birds throughout the year, but this does not mean that they copy ...

Instinct does play a role in nest-building, but so much more seems to be involved. Entwined with instinct are reason, ...

When it comes to the smartest bird, we humans still have a lot to learn. Bird intelligence comes in many forms, and scientists are finding that many species exhibit intelligence similar to that of ...

Amanda Tokuyama (left), the GIS & Field Data Manager for the Urban Ecology Center, shows the young campers where the band will go on the Gray catbird's leg, while Brittany Peters (right), community ...

Language learning becomes more challenging for people as we age. Children learn languages easily, but this facility begins to decline when we reach our twenties and beyond. Why? To better understand ...