Bird songs are plentiful during the spring, but have you ever wondered why do birds sing? Find out the reasons from a bird ...

The bittern is not far behind. Its loud, booming call is one of the farthest travelling of all bird songs. It calls relentlessly both day and night from deep within the reed bed, hoping to attract ...

Listen to the songs and calls of the most common garden birds in the UK and get tips on how to learn to recognise these familiar sounds. Bird song is probably the most familiar type of bird sound.

Other birds, of course, are singing in March, for example, the American robin, but it seems they are more often vocal at dawn ...

New research shows how bird songs evolve with population changes. Young birds drive new songs, while older ones preserve ...

Birds adjust their songs and territorial behavior to compete with traffic sounds, even in remote island environments.

Recordings of brain activity in budgerigars reveal sets of brain cells that represent different sounds like keys on a ...

If juveniles are deafened after the sensory phase but before the sensorimotor phase, they develop aberrant songs (Konishi 1965). Birds of certain species produce more sounds during the ...

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A new study using the largest network of microphones to track birds in the United States is providing crucial insights for ...

Listen to the songs and calls of the most common garden birds in the UK and get tips on how to learn to recognise these familiar sounds. Bird song is probably the most familiar type of bird sound.