I walked out of work following one of my night shifts here at The Hour. It was about 11:30 p.m. so the last thing I expected was to have an interesting birdwatching experience in the parking lot. The ...

I was a bit concerned when a reader wrote to inform me that she was taking up arms against one of our local wildlife species. No, it wasn’t anything dangerous or smelly, like a rattlesnake, killer ...

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.

DEAR JOAN: This spring, as last year, I am blessed to have a mockingbird hanging out around my front yard, singing his little heart out in search of a mate. Last year, I saw him do something that ...

Q. I have a mockingbird outside my house that loves to sing from 10 p.m. to about 4 to 5 a.m. I’m tired because I’m not getting getting full night’s sleep. Why do mockingbirds sing all night long, and ...

“Effing mockingbirds, man” is the title of a short Yelp thread about the San Francisco area. “Don’t they realize this ain’t the countryside?” goes the top comment. “What are they doing yelling outside ...

You’ve heard them. Maybe in the day, maybe all day. Maybe at night, when it seems decent creatures should be in bed. Maybe they’ve added sweet melody to your spring morning. Maybe they’ve kept you ...

“Mockingbirds sing sweetly and can mimic dozens of other birds,” Marja Mills writes in The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee. “They are tough, too, however, and don’t take kindly to other ...