The sound of birds singing is synonymous with spring. As delightful as the tweets and chirps may be, these songs are actually tied to the birds’ survival — and a combination of day length, sunlight ...

Not all birds sing, but those that do — some several thousand species — do it a lot. All over the world, as soon as light filters over the horizon, songbirds launch their serenades. They sing to ...

Hello. My name is Hannah from Toronto, Canada, age 4. I would like to know: Why do birds sing? Thanks – Hannah, age 4, Toronto. Hi Hannah, thanks for your excellent question. Lots of animals use ...

Source: Kentish Plumber, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. Songbirds seem to enjoy singing. And while a great deal of research has investigated the development and production of ...

University of the Free State provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Three species of the melodic African warbler bird refuse to get up early and sing their customary daybreak songs ...

poets and musicians, from Chaucer to Wordsworth, from Handel to Respighi. Birdsong can be a natural phenomenon of intense beauty. But our enjoyment is incidental to the main purpose, which is one bird ...

“In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,” the saying goes. The same may be said of birds. That’s because spring is when most birds turn to family obligations—they mate, ...

Birds sing to mark their territories, to attract potential mates, and to broadcast their needs, but what makes this communication system extraordinary is its innate artistry and elevated learning ...

Source: Kentish Plumber, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. Songbirds seem to enjoy singing. And while a great deal of research has investigated the development and production of ...

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