Samuel Henderson said his hobby began at the age of 4, when he mimicked a great-tailed grackle.

Countryside living. Getting on a bit. It was only a matter of time before I gave into certain impulses: I’m curious about birdlife. It’s a curiosity that’s at risk of developing into outright ...

In some of the, well, less stressful corners of social media, you can hear all kinds of bird calls, people sharing recordings of birds that they took with their phones. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

An Anna’s hummingbird calls out from the bare branch of a Hachiya persimmon tree in a Santa Cruz backyard. According to American Bird Conservancy’s website, the bird was named for the 19th century ...

Not too long ago, a curious trend swept across the internet. People were going on about how a single sound was somehow triggering a wave of nostalgia for them and transporting them back to the simple ...