I approach a flock of mountain chickadees feasting on pine nuts. A cacophony of sounds, coming from the many different bird species that rely on the Sierra Nevada’s diverse pine cone crop, fill the ...

Daytime and nighttime temperatures are inching downward now, and that means fall migration is picking up. The sagging cold front from earlier this week no doubt has ushered in some neotropical ...

The first example of an animal making sophisticated decisions about the danger posed by a predator from the information contained in the alarm calls of another species has been discovered. If Dr. John ...

HARDLY bird-brained, the black-capped chickadee has one of the animal kingdom’s most intricate alarm calls. These palm-sized puffballs vary the number of syllables in their battle cry depending on the ...

Members of the Pravosudov lab catch and release resident chickadees to attach identifying bands that allow the researchers to track individual birds.(Sofia Haley) I spend my days out at our field site ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sofia Marie Haley, University of Nevada, Reno (THE CONVERSATION) I approach a flock of ...