A dawn chorus sounds like hundreds of songbirds, each one singing something different. Nearly all of them are working from the same eight sounds. Those eight include trills, whistles, harsh notes with ...

The barking owl is a striking-looking hunter found in Australia’s woodlands. Compact, powerful and yellow-eyed, it spends the ...

A fundamental law of human language has now been found in both songbirds and whales ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered a previously undetected structure in the birdsong of Bengalese finches ...

Birdwatching is drawing younger people through technology, social connection and programs that make the outdoors easier to ...

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A new genomic study from Smithsonian scientists traces the honeycreepers' explosive diversification to the formation of O'ahu ...