I approach a flock of mountain chickadees feasting on pine nuts. A cacophony of sounds, coming from the many different bird species that rely on the Sierra Nevada's diverse pine cone crop, fill the ...

Get away from my babies. Some birds attract mates not with a species-specific song, but through a large repertoire, including sounds borrowed from other species. For example, the brown thrasher ...

One of the unique aspects of our modern era is the ability to preserve sights and sounds. While an animal’s extinction means ...

It is a joy to linger in bed for a few minutes on a spring morning and tell which birds are singing so jubilantly outside the bedroom window.

Biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have released the first broad-scale, comparative, fine-grained analysis ...

Birding and bird ID come hand in hand, but for some beginners, it can be tricky to learn differences between bird species. This Merlin bird ID app can help.

I’ve published scientific papers on the songs of sagebrush and Brewer’s sparrows. And I have enough sage thrasher recordings ...

the list is called “Bird Words – A Compilation of Human Articulations Applied To Bird Songs And Calls.” On it are the names of 54 birds and the 80 articulations associated with their songs.

[Related: Thanks to a matriarchal gene, this bird can trick others into ... the finches’ responses to our modified calls even when the simulated songs had changed by the equivalent of three ...

Numerous different species use special songs to find mates and warblers ... the world to study some of the factors that influence bird sounds. They found some patterns of how habitat, latitude ...