Mar. 31—April is known for many happenings. It is the month of warming temperatures that lead to thawing. (With a deep snowpack, this could cause flooding.) But it also is the month when we see many ...

Koni Sundquist of Duluth called Thursday to say she had heard her first white-throated sparrow call of the season. For many, that pure, high-pitched call -- "Old Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody" -- is ...

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I was out back early this morning, drinking coffee and recording the morning chorus of bird songs with Merlin, the Cornell Lab birding App. There is a feature in Merlin called Sound ID that listens to ...

There are lots of sparrows. Excepting birders, they get little play or press. I was mildly self-disgusted to scroll back through the roster of nearly 400 Dispatch columns I’ve written to date and see ...