When I hike the nearby tiny portion of the North Country Trail, now declared a national park, by the way, the two things I am always sure to carry are my cellphone and binoculars. The phone because it ...

It is only early March, with Old Man Winter still looming large in the rearview mirror. But the birds speak – literally – of spring. Ever-lengthening daylight hours trigger our earliest songbirds to ...

One of the loudest birds that we hear in our yards is also one of the smallest. The tiny house wren weighs only 11 grams, about the same as 2 quarters, and is a mere 4 inches long. With its small size ...

When visitors come to Southeast Alaska, they often look up for ravens and bald eagles. But there’s plenty of other birds to ...

Wrens are one of my favorite groups of birds. They are small, cute, and like to hide from us. That makes them challenging. But they also have songs that explode from cover and tell us which species ...

Three kinds of wrens nest in the area, Carolina wren, Bewick’s wren and house wren. However, the Carolina wren is most common. It’s a loud, chatty little bird that sings any time of day. A little bird ...

The month of October is all about the wrens in Central Texas.

I’m not a bird watcher, but I’ve become a bird listener ever since downloading a bionic ear app to my phone. It lets me enter a different world, one where I’m surrounded not just by chirping but by ...