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 ...

The lovable Star Wars droid is helping to shed light on why some bird species are better at mimicking sounds than others ...

Q. Our neighbor has a shrub that is blooming now with plumes of blue flowers. The flowers are attractive, but the thing that ...

"If you say 'peanut' enough times and you hand them a peanut, just like with a kid, they're going to learn that word label," ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Each morning begins with the same sound – birds singing before sunrise. A new study on zebra finches explains this behavior with remarkable clarity. The researchers found that early singing isn’t ...

🎶🍃 Let your mind rest with calming bird songs from Europe’s forests, fields, and wetlands. This peaceful soundscape features robins, blackbirds, finches, wrens, warblers, and more — recorded in ...