Watching birds in your backyard during the spring is a fun pastime. If you can't see them, you can still identify them if you ...

The sound of birds singing is synonymous with spring. As delightful as the tweets and chirps may be, these songs are actually tied to the birds’ survival — and a combination of day length, sunlight ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s a massive difference between vocal learning bird species and birds that rely on innate calls. You can teach certain birds ...

Scientists overseeing the breeding program tried playing for their birds the "Blue Mountains Typical," an aria sung by the ...

Spring birdsong signals safety and eases stress, and recent research shows female songbirds also sing to defend territory, ...

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 ...

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. They sing to ...

Why Birds Sing A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song by David Rothenberg Basic, 258 pp., $26 WHY DO BIRDS SING? The short answer is, to establish territories and attract mates. To David Rothenberg, ...

Source: Kentish Plumber, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. Songbirds seem to enjoy singing. And while a great deal of research has investigated the development and production of ...

“In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,” the saying goes. The same may be said of birds. That’s because spring is when most birds turn to family obligations—they mate, ...

Source: fir0002, via Wikimedia Commons. Traditionally, birdsong has been viewed as a male trait, and this bias has dominated research on the behavior. “For a long time, scientists thought that female ...