Members of the Pravosudov lab catch and release resident chickadees to attach identifying bands that allow the researchers to track individual birds.(Sofia Haley) I spend my days out at our field site ...

Daytime and nighttime temperatures are inching downward now, and that means fall migration is picking up. The sagging cold front from earlier this week no doubt has ushered in some neotropical ...

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.

HARDLY bird-brained, the black-capped chickadee has one of the animal kingdom’s most intricate alarm calls. These palm-sized puffballs vary the number of syllables in their battle cry depending on the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sofia Marie Haley, University of Nevada, Reno (THE CONVERSATION) I approach a flock of ...