International bird-sounds expert Allison Kondler will be the special guest at the inaugural Birding Festival of the South in ...

The morning breaks to the sound of a chirp. Or maybe it’s more of a twitter. Perhaps it’s a chirp, chirp, twitter. What’s that? A wren? A sparrow? A grosbeak? You don’t have to be a bird lover to be ...

When birds and humans sing it sounds completely different, but now new research shows that the very same physical mechanisms are at play when a bird sings and a human speaks. When birds and humans ...

Some birds sing to attract a mate. Others dance or display colorful feathers. But in the moonlit forests and shrublands of ...

“I’m… so… tired.” One September morning, you’ll hear those three plaintive, descending notes emerge from the edge of the yard, a new sound in this quiet ...

Birds, although they have larynges, use a different organ to sing. Called a syrinx, it's a uniquely avian feature. Now, a team that brings together physics, biology, computation and engineering finds ...

The crested pigeon, found in Australia, has a modified wing feather that helps produce an alarm signal sound to warn other birds when there's trouble. Feathers are not just for flight. They keep birds ...

All air-breathing vertebrates have a larynx—a structure of muscles and folds that protects the trachea and, in many animals, vibrates and modulates to produce a stunning array of sounds. But birds, ...