Listening to bird songs and calls can help identify species and connect with the sounds of nature. An ornithologist provides ...

Many of the birds that awaken us each morning learn their melodious songs the same way that humans learn a dialect — from parents and neighbors. But to most biologists, learning songs through mimicry ...

The meadowlark’s reveling song rolls across prairies and fields with a fluted melody, as if singing "spring-of-the-year." Early European settlers gazing over May’s serene meadows in the New World must ...

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 ...

When the song pauses in a game of musical chairs, everyone jostles for one of the remaining seats. Bird migration today is much the same. When it’s time for a break in their biannual travels, ...

BIRD-SONG is one of the most charming mysteries in nature; it has no counterpart in art. I have at times fancied there was some analogy between it and the art of poetry, but there is none, in fact.

What Does an Eastern Kingbird Look Like? For birders looking to add more flycatchers to their life list, the eastern kingbird is a good place to start. According to Dale Gentry, Director of ...

Was that the call of an eastern phoebe, the small grey bird local to the Upper Valley? Every spring, hundreds of species of birds can be viewed in the Upper Valley, many of which have migrated back to ...