Every morning at about 7 since late February, the cardinal has been singing its “Cheer, cheer, cheer” song in my yard. Now the American robin is singing, “Cheerily, cheerio,” adding to the growing ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Birds use chirps, trills, and warbles to attract mates, alert others of predators, and defend their territory. But whenever they ...
Winter is fading, spring is coming, and birds are singing. The distinctive songs of eastern meadowlarks roll across prairies surrounding our metropolis. The males perch on fence lines, fence poles and ...
WHY do birds sing? Has their music a meaning, or is it all a thing of blind impulse ? Some bright morning in March, as you go out-of-doors, you are greeted by the notes of the first robin. Perched in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kevin Omland is a professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Evangeline Rose is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Maryland. Karan Odom is a ...