Sophisticated birdsong follows strict grammatical rules, much like human sentences. But what happens when birds can’t hear ...

As the first light spills over the emerald canopy of India’s Western Ghats, the forest erupts in song. Birds trill, warble, and whistle in a delightful chorus that has fascinated biologists and ...

With the use of autonomous recording units, or ARUs, scientists can listen to bird frequencies to understand their behaviors.

The singing is typically carried out by the male, with the strongest and best-fed birds able to sing the loudest. Birds tend to sing in the morning for many reasons.

Another is that birds spend their time singing at dawn because there's low light and it's a bad time to look for food. "We basically didn't find much support for some of these environmental cues which ...

A bird isolated for the first part of its life and then exposed to adult song after the early critical period will not be able to learn songs. It will still sing, but the song is rudimentary. The ...

Source: Kentish Plumber, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. Songbirds seem to enjoy singing. And while a great deal of research has investigated the development and ...

For decades, a dominant theory about why birds sing at dawn — called the "dawn chorus" — has been that they can be heard farther and more clearly at that time.