Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Carolina wren investigates orange mock oyster mushrooms. It is only early March, with Old Man Winter still looming large in the ...

Dull in appearance but notable for its effervescent song, the house wren is a common summer inhabitant of scrublands and woodland edges throughout much of North America. Variation in plumage and call ...

Audio recording of a less exploratory male fairy-wren song. Credit: D Colombelli-Négrel (Flinders University) First, the birds were captured to measure their personality in short-term captivity.

Over a decade ago, behavioral ecologist Diane Colombelli-Négrel was wiring superb fairy wrens’ nests to record the birds’ sounds when she noticed something odd. Mother fairy wrens sang while ...

More than 60% of all grassland habitats in North America have been lost, according to the 2019 North American Grassland and Birds Report by the National Audubon Society. Much of it is due to ...