Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mountain chickadees are unusual in having more complex calls than songs. Vladimir Pravosudov I approach a flock of mountain ...

Are you interested in learning how to distinguish between bird calls and songs? The Larimer County Department of Natural Resources will hold a “Campfire (Bird) Songs” event at Hermit Park Open Space ...

Birds make an incredible variety of sounds, from simple chirps to complex songs, but whether they actually understand each other the way we understand language is more complicated than you’d think.

Scientists simulated how drought conditions could change the song of Darwin’s medium ground finches by digitally modifying recordings to mimic what would happen as their beaks grew larger over ...

In our quest to find what makes humans unique, we often compare ourselves with our closest relatives: the great apes. But when it comes to understanding the quintessentially human capacity for ...

When we begin to hear birdsong as language, and not as something they do for our amusement, we hear the intention of survival ...

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