Song allows the bird to "speak" better than and other family of creatures. It is the perfect medium for communicating over long distances, or when it is hard to see the singer - and the audience: for ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. In the ...

Big Bird barely made it out of the 1980s in one piece. Not only was Sesame Street' s biggest star in talks to ride aboard the ...

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 ...

Dawn is beckoned by choruses of birds all around the world, but we still don't understand why our avian neighbours insist on ...

Classic Waylon... The country icon has so many iconic songs, and stories, to his name, and recently, we got to hear some brand new Waylon music on the album Songbird, which is a tracklist full of ...

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I walked up to a group of students at a picnic table on my college campus and said, “Isn’t it great to hear all the birds singing.” They gave me the look of, “What-are-you-talking-about?” professor ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chris Lituma, West Virginia University (THE CONVERSATION) Waking up to the dawn chorus ...

Each week a new group of birds passes through the yard as they wing their way north. Some stay to nest, while others continue their journey. So far, I’ve welcomed killdeer, woodcock, phoebes, field ...