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 ...

As the process by which male birds learn to sing is similar to how humans learn to speak, further study of the zebra finch genome could help elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which people ...

But these melodies are not from the songbirds who flit amongst the branches. Instead, they belong to the Alston’s singing mouse, Scotinomys teguina, a tiny creature with a surprising skill.

How Birds Sing The mechanism of bird song has traditionally been compared to either a wind musical instrument or the human vocal apparatus. The analysis of the bird songs themselves points toward ...

Whatever the habitat, birds have a way of singing into it. When a bird sings, it can always be heard, even after it has moved out of sight. Sound travels in all directions; it can penetrate ...

In fact, this is a major reason why birds sing at daybreak. As well as a lack of background noise, reduced wind and air turbulence mean bird song at dawn is up to 20 times more effective than at ...

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." ...

Researchers find that drumming in woodpeckers is neurologically similar to singing in songbirds Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...