As winter approaches, a silence creeps over the natural landscape. Songbirds are mostly quiet now, not to resume their cheery singing until early next spring. Bees have stopped buzzing. Katydids and ...

In spring, songbirds serenaded us with sweet song each morning in the “dawn chorus.” In summer, the monotonous droning of cicadas and katydids day and night gave us that season’s iconic sounds. But ...

As with every winter, we here in Maine awake to the sound of crows cawing as snow blankets the ground, with the cold air hitting our faces. However, this will soon become less of a reality due to the ...

We have all been there: It’s like 5 a.m. and you are rudely awoken from a deep slumber by the annoying and relentless sound of a crow cawing outside your house. You lay there in bed annoyed, listening ...

DEAR JOAN: Something interesting happened last week in my yard. I had just gotten home when l heard loud (really loud) cawing from about a dozen crows in my backyard. I looked outside and saw the ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A young man with a microphone stepped onto a small stage and cawed like a crow. Minutes later, hundreds of noisy birds circled above him, perched on trees and sat on roof tops, ...

DEAR JOAN: Something interesting happened last week in my yard. I had just gotten home when l heard loud (really loud) cawing from about a dozen crows in my backyard. I looked outside and saw the ...