The lyrebird isn’t just a songbird - it’s nature’s ultimate impressionist. Known as the world’s greatest mimic, this bird can ...

Imagine standing in a quiet forest and hearing a low, rolling croak echo through the trees. Suddenly, a glossy-black bird ...

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In birds, singing behaviors play a critical role in mating and territory defense. Although birdsong can signal individual quality and personality, very few studies have explored the relationship ...

It’s almost time to plant your crop or garden! You know what they say, Good Friday is the best time to get your plants in the ground. Ozarks First’s Bailey Strohl researched some old ...

But the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is home to one of the largest collections of a Native American art form that is hardly known at all: the quilt. Eighty-eight ...

Beneath the Sky and Sea,” new paintings by Louise Haynes Hall, are on view in the Main Gallery. • “Playing House” is a ...

The second is exposure to other languages, and the colonists came into contact with Native American languages, mariners’ Indian English pidgin and other settlers, who spoke Dutch, Swedish ...