The beautiful melody of birds early in the morning is the best thing to hear. But do all birds sing in the morning? And why ...

Rachel Carson’s landmark 1962 environmental science book Silent Spring was an investigation of the environmental harm caused by the use of the synthetic pesticide DDT. The book took its title from the ...

The best part of spring is the dawn chorus, the early morning torrent of birdsong that occurs during the nesting season. This is the clearest sign of the most dramatic natural event encountered by ...

I usually write answers to kids’ science questions early in the morning. I like how it’s so quiet – except for my bird neighbors singing and singing. I asked my friend Jennifer Phillips what’s going ...

Researchers have some new evidence about what makes birds make so much noise early in the morning, and it's not for some of the reasons they previously thought. For decades, a dominant theory about ...

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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 ...

By the time light appears, birds are primed to move and vocalize. Singing becomes their way of stretching after hours of stillness. Why The Noise Gets So Intense In another experiment, scientists ...