Bird song is beautiful and fascinating. I love hearing the first songs of returning lazuli buntings, western tanagers and Bullock’s orioles this time of year. And it’s fun to chase down some mystery ...

The songs a bird sings while dreaming have been revealed for the first time. Researchers at the University of Buenos Aires created a way to track the vocal muscle activity of birds as they sleep, and ...

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 ...

I usually write answers to kids’ science questions early in the morning. I like how it’s so quiet – except for my bird neighbors singing and singing. I asked my friend Jennifer Phillips what’s going ...

I was out back early this morning, drinking coffee and recording the morning chorus of bird songs with Merlin, the Cornell Lab birding App. There is a feature in Merlin called Sound ID that listens to ...

Waking up to the dawn chorus of birds — one of the natural world’s greatest symphonies — is a joy like no other. It’s not surprising that bird-watching has become an increasingly popular hobby. A ...

Waking up to the dawn chorus of birds—one of the natural world's greatest symphonies—is a joy like no other. It is not surprising that bird-watching has become an increasingly popular hobby. Subscribe ...

One rainy morning a week ago, I hear a beautiful bird song that I cannot quite identify. It’s longish, sweet and melodic. From in the bedroom, I glance over at the feeders and there’s the usual ...

It’s been hot for a week, made worse by thick humid conditions. Smart money says stay in the house. But playing it smart means no hope to see good things in nature. Indoors offers nothing. Outdoors, ...

A new study has confirmed the belief that birdsongs evolve as a result of age, population dynamics and movement of the birds. Researchers gathered thousands of hours of audio of great tits (Parus ...