Nightingales are among the most celebrated of all animal singers, no doubt earning their place through the complexity of ...

In summer 2025, a claim spread online that U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard confirmed in an interview with conservative commentator Benny Johnson that "Operation Mockingbird," an ...

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Most of Georgia’s year-round songbirds, such as robins, bluebirds and cardinals, establish and aggressively defend territories during the spring and summer nesting season. Come autumn, however, with ...

Florida state Representative James Vernon "Jim" Mooney has filed a motion to replace the current state bird, the mockingbird, with the American flamingo. Mooney, a Republican who represents Islamorada ...

TALLAHASSEE – For nearly a century, the mockingbird has reigned supreme as the state bird of Florida, surviving multiple coup attempts by the Florida Legislature. Once again, a lawmaker this year ...

When Marshall Mathers introduced the world to Slim Shady, he uttered three memorable words: My name is. The rapper known as Eminem became famous with his alter ego, displaying many sides that were ...

It’s October and all the leaves are off my winterberry shrub, leaving a copious crop of bright red berries. And here comes a mockingbird. If it’s the same individual bird, he (or she) shows up every ...

Bird attacks on humans are usually an action intended to protect territory or the young. It’s rarely pure aggressive. It’s not uncommon for a bird to attack because it mistakes something (like a ...

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 ...

America may be the land of the free and the home of the brave, but it is also home to many gorgeous animals. Whether you spot animals on land or in the sky, each one is as unique and different as ...