Dawn is beckoned by choruses of birds all around the world, but we still don't understand why our avian neighbours insist on ...

In studying animal communication, it’s hard to know whether animals react instinctively to the vocalizations of others or ...

When a bird spots a predator and emits an alarm call, do its neighbors think "predator" and then react? Or do they automatically freeze or fly away ...

More than 60 years later, we can still wake up to the sound of birdsong, but as ubiquitous as the dawn chorus is, it’s not totally clear why birds do it. Now, a new study (yet to be peer reviewed) ...

The dawn chorus of birdsong has inspired poets and nature lovers for thousands of years, but the reason why birds all over the world start the day this way is an enduring mystery. Now, a series of ...

What I love most about juncos is that even a casual nature watcher can find them, and enjoy their spritely antics on a dreary ...

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For the record, this is a story that I’ve been sitting on for months. So much was happening this summer that things started to pile up in my to-do pile and I made the decision to set this one aside ...

For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce new sounds. But a new article in The Quarterly Review of Biology reveals ...

Zebra finches don’t just mimic sounds—they understand them, revealing surprising insights into animal communication and cognition.

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