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 ...

I’m not sure I’d want to live in a world without the ebullient song of the northern mockingbird. But the email I get from readers at best seeks hints on how to stop them from singing all night long.

On a recent trip to Florida, I heard a bird singing out behind my cousins cabin that caught my attention. No, its song wasnt all that pretty, but it kept changing tunes. A friend and I were sitting on ...