A new study shows that male fairy wrens hitchhike their songs onto predators' calls so that females are more likely to pay attention to them.

For us, summer usually starts on Mother’s Day when our back-of-the-garage garden plot begins to take shape. Today we can see the first yellow flowers on our tomato plants and our peppers, zucchini and ...

Sometimes it’s the little miracles we remember the most. For nearly 20 years we’ve had house wrens nesting at Mt. Hoo, so it became routine each spring knowing there was activity in the house wren ...

The northern house wren (Troglodytes aedon) presents remarkable gusto in a small package. The tiny, energetic bird, with its inconspicuous brownish-gray plumage, is the most common of at least nine ...

There was a bird war going on in our backyard this spring between a family of sparrows and wrens over a nest. We liken it to the frustration of losing the last spot in a crowded parking lot to the ...