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 ...

Recently, I heard what I thought were both a Tufted Titmouse and a Carolina Wren singing nearby. Then I discovered the sounds were coming from two different mockingbirds instead. Any explanation why ...

Author Annie Dillard once asked a simple but poignant question about the northern mockingbird in her best-selling book “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.” “It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the ...