Paul Hurtado was walking out of the mechanic shop at the corner of Kenny Road and Kinnear Road. He had turned in his car to have the brakes checked at the Kinnear Road Garage at the corner of Kenny ...

The song of the Savi's Warbler sounds like a strange insect buzzing. These birds live near European lakes, ponds, and rivers, just above the water's surface. During nesting season, males perch on ...

All air-breathing vertebrates have a larynx—a structure of muscles and folds that protects the trachea and, in many animals, vibrates and modulates to produce a stunning array of sounds. But birds, ...

This time of year, if you go outside at night and listen, you will hear tiny, soft “peeps” in the sky above you. These are the flight calls of migrating songbirds, en route from northern breeding ...

Traffic noise isn’t just unpleasant; in the Galápagos Islands, it can also make songbirds aggressive, a recent study has found. Once famed for their undisturbed natural ecosystems, the Galápagos ...

In the middle of June while shooting photos from a kayak on Parker’s Pond in Cato, wildlife photographer Greg Craybas came across some yellow warblers. “Warblers are the butterflies of birds,” he says ...

If you’re looking for a warbler that isn’t just passing through the Chesapeake Bay region on its way to summer breeding grounds way up north, keep a lookout the next few months for the prothonotary ...