I’ve become The Bird Guy to my friends and family. When they see a bird they don’t recognize, I’m asked to identify it with nothing more than a blurry photo. When the algorithms feed them bird-related ...

FILE - A tufted titmouse grabs a seed from a snow covered bird feeder during a snowstorm in December 2020 in North Andover, Mass. Mark Herz: This is GBH’s Morning Edition. If it’s feeling spring-y to ...

Have you ever seen a flash of color, heard a whistling song and wondered what bird just flew by? Then bird-watching might be a great hobby for you! Other than a willingness to look carefully and ...

Step outside. Hear that? It’s birdsong, and it seems louder than ever. At a time when we’re all hunkered down, birds seem to be commanding our attention — and getting it. The calls, chirps and trills ...

Inside my home on the West Coast, I often hear my neighbors. Whenever a nasal honk-honk-honk alerts me that they’ve fluttered into my yard, I rush outside to watch red-breasted nuthatches scurry over ...

Backyard birding has become the perfect pandemic pastime. Here’s how to draw more species to your yard, and maybe get a good photo, too. By Paul Stenquist Hosting a gathering of friends at your home ...

Alan Zerbe, of Harrisburg, said he hadn’t a clue that “feeding the birds in my backyard would be so expensive.” During home confinement in the height of the coronavirus pandemic earlier this year he ...