Learn how to identify a cedar waxwing call and hear what the species sounds like. Then you can listen for these birds in your backyard.

A lone Bohemian waxwing, traveling with a flock of cedar waxwings in Knoxville’s Sequoyah Hills Park on Nov. 22, was the first ever documented in Tennessee. It’s pretty amazing that someone would even ...

When I stepped outside on my way to work the day before Thanksgiving, I became suddenly aware that winter was here. It was neither a bone-chilling wind nor drifts of snow that had alerted me to winter ...

Last week's bird, the house sparrow, is the image of domesticity. Even its name suggests a place bound creature. This week's bird is a wanderer, as its name implies. What do the house sparrow and the ...

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