The canary brightens any space with its sweet, continuous trills and cheerful little chirps. This bird can mimic the calls of ...

A quiet fall morning turns extraordinary with the sight and sound of hundreds of robins in migration. As fog lifts from the ...

With All Hallows Eve rapidly approaching, I thought it was high time to explore the spookier side of birds. Specifically, ...

Ready to do some bird-watching right from your window? As the leaves start to change and the air gets crisp, your backyard ...

The relationship between sounds in words and their meaning is thought to be mostly arbitrary. Some linguists and behavioural ecologists, however, argue that the instinctive vocal responses that humans ...

When a bird hears this call, it instinctively investigates. During that moment, explained co-author Damián Blasi, a language scientist at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain, the bird begins to associate ...