As you begin Valentine’s Day, listen for the cheery song of the northern cardinal. The crimson-colored male bespeaks sweetheart’s day like no other bird, and its courtship with the female cardinal is ...

Spring sometimes motivates me to get up at an hour that seems totally unreasonable at any other time of year. And so, when I stepped outside at 5 a.m., I was surprised to be greeted by the ...

Radiantly red, like a red rose on Valentine's Day, the male Northern cardinal belts out a courtship song to a female sounding like "dear-dear-dear, pretty-pretty-pretty." The 8-inch-tall bird sports a ...

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 ...

Q: I was hearing cardinals starting to sing their springtime song in January. Why do they start so early, since they don’t begin nesting until late spring? A: It takes a lot of time and energy to ...

New research suggests that populations of the Northern Cardinal -- one of the most ubiquitous backyard birds in the United States -- are undergoing speciation in two adjacent deserts. This study, ...

Myriad bird species will be flying through northern Illinois in the next couple of months, filling the region with bird songs as they fly to their northern breeding grounds or establish nesting spots ...

The longer winter goes on, with its monochrome palette, leafless branches and profound silence, the more we appreciate the brilliantly red Northern cardinal. Cardinals visit our backyards and feeders ...