Coordinated locally by birding organizations and volunteers, the Christmas Bird Count happens each year between mid-December ...

Three species of the melodic African warbler bird refuse to get up early and sing their customary daybreak songs when the ...

These three bird courtship displays are so bold, precise and theatrical that they make human romance look a little ...

The Ophelias lead vocalist and guitarist Spencer Peppet made us a list of 10 albums, and you can watch her talk about them, and read the list with her commentary below. The Ophelias’ released the very ...

With 2025 coming to a close, that means we've reached the halfway point for this decade. Difficult as that may be to believe, it is true, and it technically marks six full years of music, counting ...

If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...

In this manuscript the authors examine correlations between intrinsic electrophysiological properties of HVC neurons projecting to Area X and the temporal structure of the birds' song. The study ...

Waking up to the dawn chorus of birds – one of the natural world’s greatest symphonies – is a joy like no other. It is not surprising that bird-watching has become an increasingly popular hobby. A ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chris Lituma, West Virginia University (THE CONVERSATION) Waking up to the dawn chorus ...

“I don’t know what town we’re in, but we are parking at a Chinese restaurant called Little Bamboo,” Kellen Baker tells me over the phone, his bandmates chirping indecipherably around him. They’re on a ...

Every birder knows the wonderful feeling of hearing a new bird, followed by the desire to discover what bird they heard and then the thrill of correct identification. Whether a new birder with the ...

It’s one of the most iconic classic rock songs of all time, and yet Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird," released in 1973, never had an official music video. Crazy, right? The legendary song, which has ...