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European starlings just beat parrots at their own game – copying complex sounds. In a new study by researchers in Amsterdam ...

The News-Press and Naples Daily News award-winning photographer shares his favorite locations in SWFL to photograph birds.

A collective of land trusts, conservancies and tribes is capturing birdsong with audio gear and A.I. for clues about habitat ...

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

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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 ...

Learn what a barred owl looks like and what their call sounds like. Plus learn where you can spot these large owls in North ...

When you think of birds imitating sounds, parrots and starlings might come to mind. They're famous for copying human speech, ...

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

Owl Species Three screech-owls are found in North America: eastern, western and whiskered. But about 22 screech-owl species ...

When workers began pouring concrete at a resort construction site in southwestern Utah, they were met with a surprise: A great horned owl appeared in the slurry as it emptied from the truck, its body ...