People often ask me what the pretty yellow birds in their yard are (they’re goldfinches). Others inquire about the red ones (house finches, or as the poets and old-timers like to call them, linnets).

A-list rare birds around here. In the first two months of last year we hosted the state’s first ever Ferruginous Hawk and an ...

The sound goes off every morning with a sharp, staccato beep-beep-beep. Our neighbor, Yoka Meyer, thought it was our alarm clock going off. No, it’s a male tufted titmouse greeting the break of day ...

The clearest sign of California spring is the singing of titmice. It starts early here, as does the season. I often hear the first few tentative attempts in December. In January and February, their ...

Titmice and chickadees, the only two North American members of the family Paridae, are among our most common yard birds. True, sometimes, familiarity breeds contempt; but paying close attention to ...

I put up bird feeders in the late fall, when the cold and frost descend. I started feeling the chill this past weekend and got even more hungry than usual, which is when I thought of my little ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

Northern cardinals and tufted titmice are two abundant bird species in the woods of eastern North America. Many bird and mammal species rely on information from tufted titmice calls to detect and ...

The three have a reputation of being fearless, curious and friendly. The Carolina chickadee is typically the leader of flocks of small birds that also usually include tufted titmice and white-breasted ...

It looks like tufted titmice are beginning to filter back into Berks County. Whether they are birds that have survived the West Nile onslaught or whether they are wanderers dispersing from outside of ...

We’ve had many reports of juniper titmice showing up at feeders around Santa Fe lately. Sometimes we start to see more titmice at feeders once nesting has wrapped up. The juniper titmouse does not ...