In 2017, I spotted my first-of-year eastern chipmunk out and about in a maple/basswood forest on Feb. 21. In 2016, the first active one was observed Feb. 25. These animals are hibernators, yet unlike ...

If you are interested in birds, you really have to be interested in birds songs — and really any kind of sounds birds make. Generally the term “bird calls” is used to encompass sounds of any kind, but ...

Miniature Russian spyware is infiltrating an underground Canadian community. The perpetrators? Scientists studying how eastern chipmunks communicate. For the first time, the team has outfitted the ...

Right now four chipmunks are in my garden vying for birdseed. One is actually on the squirrel-proof, but not chipmunk-proof feeder, two are foraging below the feeder and the fourth is poking around in ...