The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

Monk parakeets ease into new friendships, slowly approaching strangers to avoid aggressive encounters. Researchers watched how birds shared space, groomed each other, and escalated to deeper social ...

When 10-year-old Samuel Henderson decided to share his bird calls at a school talent show this past May, he wasn’t nervous at all. In fact, in his mind, he was playing to a much larger audience than ...

Plus, the reason red-winged blackbirds seem to attack everything and how tree-nesting mallards pull off impossible-looking ...

Do you dislike the way parakeets monopolise the bird feeder, peck at your fruit trees and make an awful din? I’m afraid you might be racist. At least, that’s one of the arguments made by Chris Packham ...

In this passionate documentary, Chris Packham looks at the notorious nature invaders – and whether we should love or loathe those flashes of neon green in our skies ’Twas a grim February teatime in ...

Listen to the fluted chorus of a Wood Thrush, a beautiful song known to inspire artists and enliven eastern forests each summer. Now hear the gruff squawk of an American Crow. Which is the songbird?

Ring-necked parakeets are doing no damage to the UK’s wildlife landscape and it would be “reckless, culturally insensitive, and economically unviable” to try and remove them. So says Chris Packham, ...

Ring-necked parakeets are among Britain's most divisive birds, loved for their beauty and blamed for harming native wildlife. Chris Packham follows a family of parakeets as they grow. He investigates ...

"Country Roads, Take Me Home" to ... Omaha? Those aren’t John Denver’s exact lyrics, but they might as well be in Morgantown, with the Mountaineers heading to college baseball's most hallowed grounds ...