However, another thing we admire about birds is the sweet songs that they sing. Birds sing for many reasons. They do it to ...

Song birds communicate by singing and learn their songs through imitation. Since their discovery in the monkey brain, it has been suggested that mirror neurons mediate the mimicking of behaviour ...

The chaffinch may sing his song half a million times in a season. Indeed, British musician David Hindley slowed bird song down and discovered parallels between the skylark's blizzard of notes and ...

Songbirds sing intricate songs for mate attraction and territorial defense, which they learn early in life. How do young birds learn how to sing? What controls this complex behavior? Aa Aa Aa The ...

Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie When the pie was opened the birds began to sing Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king!

Alston’s singing mice have adapted to sing to express ... structured melodies that vary in pitch and rhythm, akin to bird songs. Each call serves a purpose, from attracting mates to warning ...

During this painstaking search, he started to notice birds that were "singing weird songs". He recalled: "They didn't sound anything like a regent honeyeater - they sounded like different species." ...

Most of the time, it's male sparrows that sing, and during the silence the birds improved their vocal performance and sang lower-amplitude "sexier" songs to defend their territory and woo a female.

And that can change and you see this, especially with our honeyeaters, tui and bellbird, we get lots of this very localised innovation in song." The reasons birds sing varies, she said.