“These birds sing louder to literally be heard ... when humidity is higher so that details of the song do not degrade as much over distance,” says Heather Williams, a professor at Williams ...

Why do birds sing so much during this time, though? Singing is an important part of the breeding cycle, which begins when migratory male birds reach their nesting grounds. They usually arrive ...

So how do you train that model? Are you starting with a bunch of different measurement data from awake birds? GABRIEL MINDLIN ... to learn the song but will learn only one song. And it will sing it ...

New research from Waseda University shows that zebra finches use their amygdala brain region to choose which older birds to ...

Not all birds sing, but those that do — some several thousand species — do it a lot. All over the world, as soon as light filters over the horizon, songbirds launch their serenades.

As behavioral biologists at Indiana University, we research wild breeding birds, with a goal of understanding why animals behave the way that they do in response ... Most birds sing at 85 ...

Do you ever listen to birds singing catchy little melodies and wonder - wait a second, do they know music theory? Can they sing in thirds and fifths? Half steps and whole steps? Do they have ...

The planet’s birds make a lot of different sounds communicating ... special songs to find mates and warblers are known to just sing for fun. While ornithologists, citizen scientists, and birders ...

female birds were long assumed to rarely sing. This notion likely grew out of a longstanding focus on birds of North America, where female birds do tend to sing less than males. But, in the 1990s ...

Is it happy?” Dr. Webster said. Humans often sing when they are emotional — happy and heartbroken alike — but scientists do not know if birds have such an emotional range. Dr. Webster ...

Plus, we talk to researcher Lauryn Benedict about the project which aims to solve the mystery of why female birds sing. Featuring interviews with RSPB president and nature presenter Miranda ...