Watching birds in your backyard during the spring is a fun pastime. If you can't see them, you can still identify them if you ...

Across Ohio, reports are coming in of robins beginning to sing their morning songs in mid February. Robins are nicknamed "The harbingers of spring," but what does that mean? Mark Shieldcastle is the ...

Every morning at about 7 since late February, the cardinal has been singing its “Cheer, cheer, cheer” song in my yard. Now the American robin is singing, “Cheerily, cheerio,” adding to the growing ...

Our state bird — adaptable, amenable to sharing the landscape with humans, getting plump year-round on whatever invasive species is available — is out, hopping and a-bopping and a-singing its song.

Whoever coined the phrase “the early bird catches the worm” may have been thinking about the American robin. These industrious little songbirds are often the first ones you will hear singing early in ...

poets and musicians, from Chaucer to Wordsworth, from Handel to Respighi. Birdsong can be a natural phenomenon of intense beauty. But our enjoyment is incidental to the main purpose, which is one bird ...

Birds that sing at night: Most birds stop singing when the sun goes down, but for some, the concert is just starting. Hearing birds sing at night is an interesting and growing experience. We usually ...