Like many other Northlanders, I feed birds each winter. With the use of sunflower seeds, thistle seeds and suet, the birds are lured to sites near our house. Here they dine, stoking their furnaces to ...

A study examined the effects of anthropogenic noise on cognition, beak color, and growth in the zebra finch. Researchers first tested adult zebra finches on a battery of cognition assays while they ...

In September, as summer yields to fall, most of the colorful birds that breed in our region during spring and summer head south for warmer locales. The departure of ruby-throated hummingbirds, ...