With a few minutes of searching, anyone can find videos online of chatty birds: macaws talk to their keepers, cockatoos sing to the camera, corvids mimic the jarring sounds of construction sites.

This week’s Indie Basement Classic is a DC shoegaze/indiepop gem from 1994 that has just gotten the deluxe reissue treatment. Over in Notable Releases, Andrew reviews Converge, Charli XCX’s Wuthering ...

Decades of cognitive research reveal that parrots can understand what numbers represent. Here’s how these birds use them to ...

From colorful painted buntings to majestic pileated woodpeckers, discover the diverse bird species making appearances in backyards this season.

Did you know you have a birth month bird? There are 12 birds aligning with the 12 months of the year, and each one can be attracted to your yard. Here's how.

Plus, cardinals “bunching up,” rodent control around feeders, where birds sleep and more. Q: I want to show my houseguests ...

During Indiana’s early statehood, the northern cardinal was far less common than it is today. The species favored warmer climates farther south and appeared only sporadically in parts of the Midwest.

The northern cardinal secured its place as Indiana’s bird by inhabiting the state year-round. The 1933 legal statute referred to the bird as the “Red Bird or Cardinal,” acknowledging the common name ...

In a study conducted at the University of Helsinki, AI was trained to classify bird sounds with increasing accuracy. The results of the study have been used, among others, in the "Muuttolintujen kevät ...

Supervising sound editor Laia Casanovas, re-recording mixer Yasmina Praderas, and production sound mixer Amanda Villavieja explain the joys of creating a whirlwind of sound in the Oliver Laxe film. It ...

John Badman is a 1982 graduate of SIU-Carbondale, with a major in cinema and photography and a minor in law enforcement administration of justice. He has worked at The Telegraph in Alton full-time for ...