If you’ve ever been jolted awake by a noisy flock of birds at dawn, you’re not alone in wondering what all the fuss is about. Every morning, before the sun is fully up and long before most people are ...

Dawn is beckoned by choruses of birds all around the world, but we still don't understand why our avian neighbours insist on such a morning ruckus. A new study, yet to be peer reviewed, explores this ...

More than 60 years later, we can still wake up to the sound of birdsong, but as ubiquitous as the dawn chorus is, it’s not totally clear why birds do it. Now, a new study (yet to be peer reviewed) ...

What I love most about juncos is that even a casual nature watcher can find them, and enjoy their spritely antics on a dreary ...

The BBC unveils a whole host of magical moments to entertain all the family over the festive fortnight across TV channels and ...

Saguaro Park in southeastern Arizona, near Tucson, offers a landscape unlike anything you’ll see elsewhere. The park hosts ...

House finches are small songbirds. Males have rosy red heads and chests, while females are brownish. These birds are native ...

Q. I understand that your neighborhood has numerous deer and that you walk your terriers amongst them. We have trouble with ...

One of Charles Darwin's famous 14 finches — the island-dwelling bird species that helped inspire the theory of evolution — the medium tree finch is found only on Floreana, one of the nine major ...

During a peaceful August morning in the meadow, Bill Danielson spots a quick-moving weasel — only his fifth such sighting in ...

Have you noticed that there is a bumper crop of cones on most of our conifers? The importance of this is that our deciduous trees and conifers, such as pine, hemlock, fir, spruce and alder are key ...

Christmas ads came thick and fast this week, from Asda's Grinch to John Lewis's dewy-eyed 90s raver dad. But who did best?