Many people assume that male songbirds are the ones doing the crooning. But more than 660 species of songbirds are known in which the females sing as well. And there are still 3,500 species of ...

On a cool, foggy, wet winter day, Nancy Tikalsky heard her first northern cardinal of the year sing. “Not calls, not chips, but pretty, pretty, pretty song,” said Tikalsky, a Zion resident. Cardinals ...

I once assumed that every singing bird I heard was a male. As any bird lover knows, male songbirds sing lustily in spring to attract females and defend territory. About the only exception, I thought, ...

That’s not true, Maureen, Well, maybe part of what you said is true. I do make fun of cardinals, but it doesn’t mean I don’t like them. I like all birds, even birds the rest of society despises ...