March is a great time of year for people across the United States. The snow begins to melt, temperatures rise, and many birds ...

Watching birds in your backyard during the spring is a fun pastime. If you can't see them, you can still identify them if you ...

Late September is the time to listen for the magic sounds that announce autumn. If you are used to listening to birds, recent months may have seemed increasingly quiet and uneventful as spring and ...

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 ...

“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 ...

In the last column, we talked about the wintering song sparrows bursting into song with the earliest glimmer of spring hope.

Birds of all kinds are renowned for their calls, songs, and relentless chirps. Some birds use their calls to communicate with one another, while others use their calls to attract mates. One such ...

People around the world are reporting that birds are much louder these days. But Sue Anne Zollinger, an ornithologist from Manchester Metropolitan University, cautions: Don't believe everything you ...

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, ...