When North American ornithologists hear a bird singing, they're likely to assume it's a male. But in many species, the females sing too -- researchers argue that a better understanding of these ...

The more you know about bird song, the more you’re apt to be fascinated by this well-known ritual of spring. We all know spring is a prime time to hear birds. These bird sounds can range from a ...

Female birds sing. That is one conclusion of our 2020 study on one of the most abundant, widespread, well-studied bird species in the world: the barn swallow. Despite the well over 1,000 scientific ...

One of the first signs of spring are the sounds of birds chirping in search of food, nesting grounds, and a potential mate. But sometimes those bird calls aren’t coming from the source you’d expect.

poets and musicians, from Chaucer to Wordsworth, from Handel to Respighi. Birdsong can be a natural phenomenon of intense beauty. But our enjoyment is incidental to the main purpose, which is one bird ...

All air-breathing vertebrates have a larynx—a structure of muscles and folds that protects the trachea and, in many animals, vibrates and modulates to produce a stunning array of sounds. But birds, ...