BirdNote

Every year, the spring rains bring life, and birdcalls, back to the California desert.

Although it’s a mere 5 and a half inches long, thanks to some remarkable anatomy, the Carolina Wren has one of the loudest voices in the forest.

To make themselves heard in noisy city gardens, urban birds sing higher and faster.

Broad areas of sagebrush in the west are being displaced by agriculture, threatening the impressive mating displays of the male Greater Sage-Grouse and the species existence.

Few creatures are out and about in the long dark nights of the northern hemisphere’s winter, but the cold doesn’t deter the Barred Owl.