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.

Those that do are known as songbirds and include families such as finches, warblers and sparrows. If you listen carefully in a garden, park or green space in the UK you can generally hear birdsong all ...

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 ...

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 ...

This birdsong is known as the dawn chorus. It's generally produced by male songbirds (passerines) that are looking for a mate. Once they have found one, they tend to sing less, however songbirds also ...