Many people assume that male songbirds are the ones doing the crooning. But more than 660 species of songbirds are known in which the females sing as well. And there are still 3,500 species of ...

On a cool, foggy, wet winter day, Nancy Tikalsky heard her first northern cardinal of the year sing. “Not calls, not chips, but pretty, pretty, pretty song,” said Tikalsky, a Zion resident. Cardinals ...

Every morning at about 7 since late February, the cardinal has been singing its “Cheer, cheer, cheer” song in my yard. Now the American robin is singing, “Cheerily, cheerio,” adding to the growing ...

I once assumed that every singing bird I heard was a male. As any bird lover knows, male songbirds sing lustily in spring to attract females and defend territory. About the only exception, I thought, ...