Spring is surely near when you hear eastern meadowlarks singing their clear flutelike melody sounding much like spring-of-the-year In West Texas, you might hear western meadowlarks singing as if ...

The meadowlark’s reveling song rolls across prairies and fields with a fluted melody, as if singing "spring-of-the-year." Early European settlers gazing over May’s serene meadows in the New World must ...

It was a sight and sound of the countryside I had nearly forgotten. There, standing proudly on a wooden fencepost, head thrown back, mouth pitched wide open, crisp flute-like notes spilling sweetly ...

I heard the song of spring echoing across a grassy field in west Harris County, a song like no other from a bird like no other called the Eastern meadowlark. Pure, sweet, joyful notes filled the air ...

Two bird species that herald spring mornings in U.S. farm country are like the singing Everly Brothers of yesteryear or the Jonas Brothers of today. They look almost exactly alike and no one can tell ...

There are lots of signs of spring. No one of them is definitive, but taken together they are completely convincing. Probably the most familiar of these signs is the arrival of the western meadowlark, ...