Urbanization is rapidly transforming natural habitats and poses growing challenges for wildlife. One lesser-known consequence ...

Birds living in noisy cities change their songs, but they do not all adapt in the same way scientists once believed.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A mournful call from the last living Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird in the 1980s has ...

My favorite part of watching birds in spring isn’t about watching them at all — it’s about listening. Many of the assorted sounds we refer to generally as “calls” are not season specific. Alarm calls ...

A new study has confirmed the belief that birdsongs evolve as a result of age, population dynamics and movement of the birds. Researchers gathered thousands of hours of audio of great tits (Parus ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The songs a bird sings while dreaming have been revealed for the first ...

It might sound like all chirps to you, but birds convey different messages, even across species. Language has long been considered the exclusive provenance of humans. But in the animal kingdom, birds, ...

In my yard in Decatur the other morning, an unseen bird in a shrub belted out something that sounded like, “Drink your teeeee!” I knew immediately that it was an Eastern towhee. Then, a loud “cheerily ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When people talk about the UK’s best bird songs they often go straight for the big names – loud, dramatic performers that grab ...

To mark International Dawn Chorus day we asked wildlife experts to make their case for why their favourite songbird deserves your vote. We hope their words will inspire you to step outside and soak up ...