A pair of eastern bluebirds. Source: Claudine Lamothe, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license. Birdsong is often thought of as a male trait, but new research is changing that idea.

A pair of eastern bluebirds. Source: Claudine Lamothe, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license. Birdsong is often thought of as a male trait, but new research is changing that idea.

Eastern bluebirds are voracious insect feeders, especially during nesting and rearing periods. Their primary diet includes flies, katydids, beetles, worms and spiders. Last Thursday was one of those ...

Birds “shout” to be heard over the noise produced by man-made activity, new research has shown. The study looked at how eastern bluebirds altered their songs in response to increases in nearby ...

While officially, spring is still two weeks away, nesting season is already starting for some of our songbirds. One of the earliest nesters is our Eastern bluebird. One customer has already seen “her” ...

Winter is fading, spring is coming, and birds are singing. The distinctive songs of eastern meadowlarks roll across prairies surrounding our metropolis. The males perch on fence lines, fence poles and ...

Frigid February will soon yield to balmy March, but eastern bluebirds aren’t waiting for a sunny day to begin nest construction inside my bluebird box. One morning with temperatures in the mid-20s, a ...