Over 20 years, scientists tracked the transformation of the traditional trill of a common bird from western Canada to Ontario. By Cara Giaimo Even if you’re not a bird person, you probably know ...

Canada's white-throated sparrows have remixed their classic song by trading a series of triplets for doublets at the end. Scott M. Ramsay “Oh, my sweet Canada, Canada, Canada,” is the white ...

Finding rare trees and uncommon birds in southwestern Ontario A guide to two natural areas where you can see unusual species of birds and plant life. Aug. 28, 2020. Aug. 28, 2020.

By 2015, every sparrow west of central Ontario was singing the doublet ending. It didn’t stop there. In western Quebec, nearly 2,000 miles from where the song began, it’s still spreading.

Migratory birds that are preventably killed in Ontario in spring and fall each year will never make it to their overwintering grounds in the United States, Central America, and South America.

Unlike warblers and sparrows, which routinely travel thousands of kilometres in their annual migrations, binocular-toting birders in Ontario have to stay close to home this winter. And though ...

For the teenage sons of an obsessed birder, a father’s bird-watching habit had become nerdy — until some bold jays in an Ontario park turned dubious adolescents into giggly boys.

Teaching wild birds to sing a new tune Date: October 4, 2018 Source: Cell Press Summary: Like toddlers learning to speak, young birds learn to sing by listening to the voices of adults.

There were so many birds in the skies above Ontario's Long Point peninsula on Sunday morning that they appeared as a massive doughnut on American weather radar in Buffalo, N.Y.

To simulate the presence of natural predators, Liana Zanette at Western University in Ontario and colleagues hung speakers from trees in 104 territories of wild song sparrows across five islands ...