It’s time at last to discuss the most celebrated songbird on the continent: the northern mockingbird. As Audubon put it, “the extent of its compass, the great brilliancy of execution, are unrivaled.

In an accessible volume, Hoose (The Race to Save the Lord God Bird) chronicles the scientific and cultural interconnectedness of humankind and versatile avian songsmith the northern mockingbird. The ...

audio: Researchers at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and McGill University suspect that inconsistent climates may play a role in the complexity of ...

Researchers at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and McGill University suspect that inconsistent climates may play a role in the complexity of bird ...