In the old records of Britain and Ireland the Blackbird stands for song in the woods (early Irish poems), a saint's gentleness (St Kevin), temptation (St Benedict), great age (the Welsh Blackbird of ...

A male Blackbird sings slow, mellow, whistled phrases, each usually ending in a short, scratchy twitter, most regularly from March to June and richest at dawn. Its calls include a loud chink, a low ...

What it means when you see a cardinal, according to the beliefs people hold, and where those beliefs come from: the name borrowed from the Catholic Church, the Cherokee legend of the redbird as the ...

What bird is singing? Let your phone listen or upload a recording, and Birdfact names the birds it hears, with their songs to ...

Robins nest early, low and in surprising places. The first eggs are laid around mid-April on average, as early as mid-March, and most pairs raise two broods a year. Here is when and where they nest, ...