The spirit of Robert Aldrich is alive and well in Harry Bromley-Davenport's "Mockingbird Don't Sing," a sensationalized screen treatment of the headline-grabbing "Genie" case of 1970, in which a ...

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 ...

I’m not sure I’d want to live in a world without the ebullient song of the northern mockingbird. But the email I get from readers at best seeks hints on how to stop them from singing all night long.

“Effing mockingbirds, man” is the title of a short Yelp thread about the San Francisco area. “Don’t they realize this ain’t the countryside?” goes the top comment. “What are they doing yelling outside ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Each year around mid-July, woods and fields and our neighborhoods become noticeably quieter as most songbirds curtail or completely stop singing until next spring. There may be several reasons for ...

If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing clip, an upcoming film from writer-director and actor Sadie Bones, will have its world premiere at the Bentonville Film Festival. Tickets for the festival are on sale ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- If children are to be seen and not heard, the opposite holds true of the northern mockingbird. There is nothing shy or retiring about this species. "The thing mockingbirds will do ...

DEAR JOAN: This spring, as last year, I am blessed to have a mockingbird hanging out around my front yard, singing his little heart out in search of a mate. Last year, I saw him do something that ...

“Mockingbirds sing sweetly and can mimic dozens of other birds,” Marja Mills writes in The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee. “They are tough, too, however, and don’t take kindly to other ...