As winter approaches, a silence creeps over the natural landscape. Songbirds are mostly quiet now, not to resume their cheery singing until early next spring. Bees have stopped buzzing. Katydids and ...

For Susan Johanson of Bucktown, morning is a time to sip coffee on the deck and listen to the birds sing. The loud, raspy cawing of crows is not what she has in mind. Yet lately, it seems like that's ...

SANTA CRUZ — Crows occupy branches of a tree on Broadway in Santa Cruz near the corner of Frederick Street. According to Cornell Lab of Ornithology, American Crows are “familiar over much of the ...