UMass Amherst scientists reveal how pitch and volume interact in birdsong, offering new insights into bird communication and ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

But how do birds learn these signature songs ... Essentially every animal with a backbone.” By studying how birds learn to sing, we can gain a better understanding of ourselves. Insights into dopamine ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 to environmental challenges and ...