His complex solo of buzzes, trills, and notes can win a young male song sparrow a mate for life. But just learning to sing in the first place reaps him another life partner of sorts. When a young male ...

It may take a village to raise a child, and apparently it takes at least two adult birds to teach a young song sparrow how and what to sing. In the first study conducted in the field to examine how ...

I was out back early this morning, drinking coffee and recording the morning chorus of bird songs with Merlin, the Cornell Lab birding App. There is a feature in Merlin called Sound ID that listens to ...

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Wed., March 29, 2023 Mary Jo Stauner took this photo of a song sparrow surrounded by graupel on Monday morning. (Courtesy of Mary Jo Stauner ) Mary Jo Stauner took this photo of a song sparrow ...

Song remixes can be polarizing — but sometimes there's no debating that a solid remix is better than the original. This especially applies to a particular bird call that rapidly — and prior to new ...

Biologists have found an animal for the first time that communicates with the complexity of human language: song sparrows. According to a new study, male song sparrows memorize a 30-minute long ...

Over 20 years, scientists tracked the transformation of the traditional trill of a common bird from western Canada to Ontario. By Cara Giaimo Even if you’re not a bird person, you probably know the ...

With the help of citizen scientists, researchers have tracked how one rare sparrow song went ''viral'' across Canada, traveling over 3,000 kilometers between 2000 and 2019 and wiping out a historic ...

A single courtship song from a male bird can rouse different responses depending on whether females have recently heard avian Pavarottis or the equivalent of tone-deaf singers in the shower. Yet in a ...