Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Waking up to birds chirping can be relaxing. Waking up to a bird squawking in the middle of the night– well that’s just irritating ...

Mockingbirds go through their song sequence three times, brown thrashers do their sequences twice, catbirds only once. Catbirds are so called because their call sounds so like a cat's mew."<P> The ...

I was a bit concerned when a reader wrote to inform me that she was taking up arms against one of our local wildlife species. No, it wasn’t anything dangerous or smelly, like a rattlesnake, killer ...