WASHINGTON – Nuthatches appear to have learned to understand a foreign language — chickadee. It's not unusual for one animal to react to the alarm call of another, but nuthatches seem to go beyond ...

Like human code-breakers intercepting secret messages, red-breasted nuthatches have evolved ways to extract hidden information about threats from predators from the seemingly indistinguishable alarm ...

Nuthatches appear to have learned to understand a foreign language — chickadee. It’s not unusual for one animal to react to the alarm call of another, but nuthatches seem to go beyond that — ...

The birds in your garden may be engaging in cross-species chatter. A recent study reports that nuthatches appear to have learned to understand a foreign language -- chickadee. It's not unusual for one ...

If Dr. John Watson had been chronicling the work of Christopher Templeton rather than the exploits of Sherlock Holmes, he might have entitled the latest research by Templeton "The Adventure of the ...

The first example of an animal making sophisticated decisions about the danger posed by a predator from the information contained in the alarm calls of another species has been discovered. If Dr. John ...

A study finds that chickadee alarm calls are being understood by an entirely different breed of bird — the red-breasted nuthatch. Chris Templeton of the University of Washington says it makes sense ...

Chickadees, nuthatches and warblers foraging their way through forests have been shown to spur the growth of pine trees in the West by as much as one-third, according to a new study. Chickadees, ...

The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers. . . — Henry David Thoreau Many of our feathered friends are also fair-weather friends, which makes the chickadee ...