For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer a reader question about the monk parakeets and grackles in Austin.

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A flock of 30 snow buntings at the former North Country Stables was one of the highlights during the annual Yellowknife Christmas Bird Count Saturday - only the fifth such appearance in the count’s ...

Thomas Paine published “Common Sense” in 1776 as an argument for independence. Americans across the political spectrum have been citing it ever since. By Joseph Rezek Joseph Rezek is an associate ...

We throw around idioms and sayings every day without stopping to think about how bizarre they actually sound. If you took them literally, half of our casual conversations would sound like surrealist ...

Christy Houvouras exercises daily, eats right and has smoked fewer than 20 cigarettes in her lifetime. That’s why she was shocked when she was diagnosed with lung cancer at just 36 years old in July. ...

Pixel devices are getting a set of new ringtones, notification alerts, and alarm sounds via an update to the Sounds app. Update: Sounds 3.3 (825845788) is now widely rolling out to older Pixel devices ...

Google Sounds is updating its UI and adding some new sound recordings. Collections are being upgraded from their color gradient icons to abstract vector art. New alarms, ringtones, and notification ...

The next time you walk out of a grocery store to find your freshly waxed car spotted with white blobs of bird poop and curse the glossy obsidian-hued birds nesting on a power line above your head, I ...

Jamie Q. Roberts does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Across North America, grackles are virtuosos of adaptation. The small- to medium-sized New World blackbirds are particularly social and known for foraging skills that help them flourish in ...