Listening to bird songs and calls can help identify species and connect with the sounds of nature. An ornithologist provides ...

Local birders surveyed nine western Maine areas Dec. 14, logging 41 species and contributing data to the nation’s ...

Winter is a season when most of us spend more of our time indoors. But wild animals don’t have that option. Not only must they find ways to keep warm all winter, but they have to work harder to find ...

As pecking orders go, it’s hard to imagine another bird that is more aggressive and dominant out of all proportion to its ...

There were eight of us from different walks of life. One of us was 80 years old, another just 20. We had one task: to count every bird we saw ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

Q. I heard a bird hit our picture window, which is a rare occurrence, since our feeders are close to the house. Looking out, I saw a grayish bird about blue jay size — it had a black stripe through ...

“White Christmas” might be the best-selling Christmas song ever, but the song’s backstory has less to do with tidings of comfort and joy than it does with the tragedy of loss and war. Written by ...

The wide brown trunk of an ash tree in front of my house makes a good backdrop for assessing the density of falling ...

Kate Hudson: Jeremy, I want to talk to you about wearing those Bruce Springsteen jeans. Jeremy Allen White: Very snug. Hudson: Oh yeah. What did it feel like when you first put them on? White: I felt ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Cheyenne Christmas Bird Count, organized by the Cheyenne-High Plains Audubon Society, took place on Dec. 20. Bird ...