A baby's babbling may sound like nonsense, but it's actually an extended act of trial-and-error learning. As babies produce ...
Hello. My name is Hannah from Toronto, Canada, age 4. I would like to know: Why do birds sing? Thanks – Hannah, age 4, Toronto. Hi Hannah, thanks for your excellent question. Lots of animals use ...
“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, ...
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 ...
Michelle Hall's research has been funded by the Australia and Pacific Science Foundation, and the Australian Research Council. This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The ...
poets and musicians, from Chaucer to Wordsworth, from Handel to Respighi. Birdsong can be a natural phenomenon of intense beauty. But our enjoyment is incidental to the main purpose, which is one bird ...
From familiar garden visitors to countryside characters you’ll hear long before you see, here are eight of the noisiest birds in the UK.
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A bird watching app is suddenly popular ...