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

The songs a bird sings while dreaming have been revealed for the first time. Researchers at the University of Buenos Aires created a way to track the vocal muscle activity of birds as they sleep, and ...

Bird song is beautiful and fascinating. I love hearing the first songs of returning lazuli buntings, western tanagers and Bullock’s orioles this time of year. And it’s fun to chase down some mystery ...

My favorite part of watching birds in spring isn’t about watching them at all — it’s about listening. Many of the assorted sounds we refer to generally as “calls” are not season specific. Alarm calls ...

What’s in a song? Quite a lot, according to Professor of Biology Heather Williams ’77 of Williams College in Massachusetts. She’s the lead author of a recent high-profile study on the cultural ...

New research has provided fresh insights into how bird songs evolve over time, revealing a significant role for population dynamics in shaping song diversity and change. The findings are based on an ...

Built-in software separates out bird song from other sounds and that information is fed back to the project, which offers a real-time map of bird locations and other data. As part of its new analysis, ...