I was out back early this morning, drinking coffee and recording the morning chorus of bird songs with Merlin, the Cornell Lab birding App. There is a feature in Merlin called Sound ID that listens to ...

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There are lots of sparrows. Excepting birders, they get little play or press. I was mildly self-disgusted to scroll back through the roster of nearly 400 Dispatch columns I’ve written to date and see ...

April is known for many happenings. It is the month of warming temperatures that lead to thawing. (With a deep snowpack, this could cause flooding.) But it also is the month when we see many migrant ...

When people talk about the UK’s best bird songs they often go straight for the big names – loud, dramatic performers that ...

Each year on the first Sunday in May, International Dawn Chorus Day invites people to do something very simple: get up before ...

Most birds only sing one dialect, learned from parents or neighbours, resulting in a geographical mosaic of regional accents.