Decades of cognitive research reveal that parrots can understand what numbers represent. Here’s how these birds use them to ...

Pink noise is different. Instead of equal energy at each frequency, the energy halves with every doubling of frequency (so ...

Frigatebirds can remain airborne for days at a time without landing. Here’s how they rest while flying, according to ...

This female yellow-bellied sapsucker made a brief appearance at my feeders. Selecting just one photo of her was agonizing. BILL DANIELSON / For the Gazette Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter ...

Birds resting on a beach or a wire often look calm, almost detached from what is happening around them. But that stillness can be misleading. For many species, sleep is not a full shutdown. One eye ...

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FOND DU LAC – Fond du Lac County Audubon Society is changing its name to the Fond du Lac Area Bird & Nature Alliance. The change aligns with a broader trend among Audubon groups, many of which are ...

Bird Buddy is a company known for its camera-equipped bird feeder, a product that started out on Kickstarter. Since debuting the original bird feeder in 2021, Bird Buddy has expanded its product ...

The relationship between sounds in words and their meaning is thought to be mostly arbitrary. Some linguists and behavioural ecologists, however, argue that the instinctive vocal responses that humans ...

When a bird hears this call, it instinctively investigates. During that moment, explained co-author Damián Blasi, a language scientist at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain, the bird begins to associate ...

The morning I sat down to write this column it was cool outside but still very dry. Even though there wasn’t any wind to speak of, yellow leaves were falling off trees and shrubs. And even though the ...

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