By Gary Randall For The Mountain Times This year’s spring has been beautiful here on the mountain. By early May, the Oso ...

An odd array of clay and wood vessels are used in Athirathram a Vedic fire ritual writes Ranjeni A SinghAthirathram is a 5 000yearold complex Vedic ritual to cleanse the atmosphere The Varthathe Trust ...

Flowers are blooming and birds are chirping — making for some beautiful sights and sounds around the province. If you snap any nice shots, be sure to send them to us at cbcnb@cbc.ca for a chance to be ...

Not unlike the beloved song of the Wood Thrush in eastern forests, the mechanical flute of the Swainson’s Thrush is the sound of summer in the boreal forest. Summer also means it’s time again for the ...

Local birding expert Marshall Howe explains the differences between the Veery and hermit thrush and their flute-like songs.

Twenty years ago, I wrote an article about my cousin Brenda’s country garden in Bognar Regis in Sussex, England. Like many ...

For more than 20 years now, I’ve covered a route on Martha’s Vineyard that is part of the U.S. Geologic Survey’s Breeding ...

Henry Dresser, a Victorian-era bird collector, is considered to be one of the great ornithologists of his day, but he got his ...

Bingo! It was the Whistling School Boy, a popular name for the Malabar Whistling Thrush. We know that birds sing. They also whistle, chirp, coo, caw, call, hoot, shriek, clack, warble.

Wood warbler, Bagshot Heath. Wood warblers were once known to have a small breeding population in Surrey until the turn of ...

Malabar Whistling Thrush. Photo: RSS KATHMANDU, JUNE 3 The Malabar Whistling Thrush, a bird native to India's Western Ghats, has been recorded in Nepal for the first time.

While the Swainson’s thrush is not a spectacular, ornate species that would be likely to grab one’s attention, its plaintive whistle sends a seasonal message to anyone willing to listen. This ...