Blackbirds always seem to get a bad rap. As the late Rodney Dangerfield was fond of saying, they “get no respect” in the bird world. I for one would argue that the blackbirds are an amazing group of ...

While none of us will communicate with birds as well as singer Bobby Day with his "Rockin' Robin," this project just might get you close. Oona Raisanen is a Finnish programmer who built a ...

Typically, the sound of rain is soothing for Boulder singer-songwriter Marie-Juliette Bird. But the forceful rain falling outside Bird’s window in September 2013, brought her little comfort. Bird and ...

The blackbirds are a tough bunch, and you could get into an argument about identification. The Grand Forks County checklist has four species with the name blackbird, but the family includes a number ...

Black birds. Good or bad? Depending on which black bird species, your answer could be yes or no … or something in between. First of all, we have to get the nomenclature straightened out so we can make ...

Unlike mammals, birds have no external ears. The outer ears of mammals play an important function in that they help the animal identify sounds coming from different elevations. But birds are also able ...

Were they red-winged blackbirds, great-tailed grackles or crows? How about double-crested cormorants? Could it have been American coots? Since the nursery rhyme originated in Europe, the blackbirds ...

Consider the charming call of the red-winged blackbird your warning. “They call to announce that that’s their territory,” said Cory Christopher, director of the Center for Conservation at the ...

NEW LONDON, Conn. (WTNH) – Today we’re Cruisin’ Connecticut, to New London where you can glide over the Long Island Sound… not on a boat, or a jet ski… but a hover craft. Yes. This is real life. The ...

A Finnish computer scientist had a dream that a blackbird was speaking to her in human language. So she devised a computer program to transform the sounds of the human voice into birdsong. While none ...