A baby's babbling may sound like nonsense, but it's actually an extended act of trial-and-error learning. As babies produce ...

Hello. My name is Hannah from Toronto, Canada, age 4. I would like to know: Why do birds sing? Thanks – Hannah, age 4, Toronto. Hi Hannah, thanks for your excellent question. Lots of animals use ...

Birds don't just sing for beauty, their voices carry messages, warnings, and even regional dialects that reveal a hidden world of communication. Bird sounds offer insight into how intelligent and ...

Three species of the melodic African warbler bird refuse to get up early and sing their customary daybreak songs when the weather is cold. This new discovery was made recently by a team of soundscape ...

Birds are singing almost an hour longer each day: Here's why By Michael Franco August 21, 2025 The researchers know that birds sing longer in light-polluted areas, but aren't sure if that's a positive ...

From familiar garden visitors to countryside characters you’ll hear long before you see, here are eight of the noisiest birds in the UK.

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Researchers have tracked muscle contractions in a bird's vocal tract, and reconstructed the song it was silently singing in its sleep. The resulting audio is a very specific call, allowing the team to ...

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 ...