Migration patterns of the song sparrow are confusing, as some do not migrate at all, but in general the bird is in no rush to ...

Detective work by scientists analyzing 20 years of bird-watchers’ private audio recordings of white-throated sparrow songs revealed that a unique variant that popped up in western Canada has ‘gone ...

Any parents out there will be familiar with the unique sort of misery that results when your kid has a new favorite song. They ask to hear it over and over, without regard for the rest of us. Well, it ...

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 ...

Most birds in Teller County head south and to lower elevations during the harsh winter season, but some diehards hang tough through the cold and snow. The song sparrow is one of those hearty species ...

Of all of the birds that I have ever seen skittering about in thickets, song sparrows are among the sneakiest. They are designed for stealth, and they are very good at it. It is simply a byproduct of ...

Some North American birds are changing their tune. The findings fly in the face of previous hypotheses that birdsong dialects don’t change much within local regions. The rapid spread of the new song ...

Most birds have distinct calls that tend to stay the same. It’s how birders can recognize a species without seeing it. But new research shows these tunes can change. Over the course of two decades, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...