The sounds of college football have changed over the years, with pop culture songs becoming part of the show at stadiums ...

Birds understand many sounds around them, from mates to alarms, and this hidden skill may hint at how human language first ...

For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce ...

You may be noticing more feathered friends passing through these days. That's because we're in migration season for a variety of birds. Be on the lookout for the purple finch, ruby-crowned kinglet and ...

“Although we speak, now, to each other in new ways / we can still meet here, I think. We always have.” My son hadn’t even been born when I started secretly writing him a birthday letter each year. As ...

Large clusters appearing on weather radars are likely massive flocks of migrating birds, not storms. A record-breaking 1.2 billion birds were estimated to be migrating in a single night during the ...

Waking up to the dawn chorus of birds — one of the natural world’s greatest symphonies — is a joy like no other. It’s not surprising that bird-watching has become an increasingly popular hobby. A ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chris Lituma, West Virginia University (THE CONVERSATION) Waking up to the dawn chorus ...