Wonder about the difference between a grackle and a starling? Do colorful warblers catch your fancy? What gave the Cooper's hawk its name? Ask me -- The Bird Lady. I'm the science editor at the ...

Watching chickadees flit through the treetops is like witnessing master acrobats at work. These adorable birds duck and dodge through branches as they hunt down small insects. Not only are these birds ...

If you’d like to see some new-to-you birds in Michigan this fall, listen for the sound of one of our most common birds: The Black-capped Chickadee. The chickadee’s namesake “chickadee-dee-dee” call is ...

Is that the tweet of a titmouse? Or the chirp of a chickadee? After you download the Merlin Bird ID app, you can use your smartphone to identify sounds and match them to the birds in trees nearby and ...

If you live in North America, you might have enjoyed the bright songs of black-capped chickadees or red-breasted nuthatches on your street. But you might not have known that those songs have lyrics.