Songbirds & Others

You’re outside on a quiet morning and something meows from the shrubs. You look around. No cat. You look again. A gray bird slips deeper into the foliage, unhurried, like it knows exactly what it just did. That’s the gray catbird — a bird most North Americans have heard dozens of times without ever attaching … Read more

People often come to finches through a back door. They wanted a parrot, realized the daily commitment wasn’t workable, and landed here. Or they just wanted something alive in the apartment without the noise and the drama. Either way, finches tend to surprise people. A healthy pair in a good cage is genuinely active and … Read more