Mockingbirds go through their song sequence three times, brown thrashers do their sequences twice, catbirds only once. Catbirds are so called because their call sounds so like a cat's mew."<P> The ...

I was a bit concerned when a reader wrote to inform me that she was taking up arms against one of our local wildlife species. No, it wasn’t anything dangerous or smelly, like a rattlesnake, killer ...