The more you know about bird song, the more you’re apt to be fascinated by this well-known ritual of spring. We all know spring is a prime time to hear birds. These bird sounds can range from a ...

If you were old enough to buy CDs in the ’90s, you may remember listening stations at superstores that featured music by some of nature’s noisiest creatures: birds. These CDs blended classical music ...

There's a new book out that is unlike any other -- it features characters with names like Hawaii creeper and bufflehead -- and strangest of all: it tweets. And it doesn't tweet in the 21st century, ...

Researchers have tracked muscle contractions in a bird's vocal tract, and reconstructed the song it was silently singing in its sleep. The resulting audio is a very specific call, allowing the team to ...

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: It's a bird show. I like that. I love birds. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Ray Brown's "Talkin' Birds." SIMON: Yep, Ray Brown, our friend of the finely feathered and host of "Talkin' Birds" ...

Researchers in a University of Chicago lab are peering inside the minds of European starlings to find out how they recognize songs and in the process are providing insights into how the brain learns, ...

Ofer Tchernichovski: For the male has nice colors and they can sing, and the female is grey and she cannot sing, they don’t even have a song system in their brain. This is a completely different brain ...

poets and musicians, from Chaucer to Wordsworth, from Handel to Respighi. Birdsong can be a natural phenomenon of intense beauty. But our enjoyment is incidental to the main purpose, which is one bird ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Laura Molles is so attuned to birds that she ...