From spraying mates with urine to changing one's sex, these are the most intriguing courtships in the animal kingdom.

As we humans warm ourselves with space heaters, coats and gloves, western painted turtles are at the bottom of our region’s ...

Every spring in Manitoba, up to 100000 red sided garter snakes emerge from underground limestone dens, forming swirling mating balls. Why do they gather here in such astonishing numbers?

There are around 11,000 species of bird living on our planet. They come in all shapes, colours and sizes, but which is the biggest of them all? From the tallest and the heaviest to giant nests and ...

Listen to the fluted chorus of a Wood Thrush, a beautiful song known to inspire artists and enliven eastern forests each summer. Now hear the gruff squawk of an American Crow. Which is the songbird?

The Narcisse Snake Dens, in the Rural Municipality of Armstrong, are a mixture of grassland and forest, covering a limestone bedrock. Over millions of years, water has seeped into the porous limestone ...

BirdNotes is a result of radio host Dwight Davis' long-time interest in birds, a short feature that can be about almost any aspect of bird life, from migration to coloration to birds in art to song.