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

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Get the keys to ID a Townsend's solitaire, a solitary, cheery-singing thrush bird with a sweet tooth for juniper berries.

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

Flocks of birds manage complex social lives with a kind of effortless coordination that many humans struggle to match. By ...

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A family found a rare corn crake hiding out in a hot tub on a cruise ship and cared for the bird until they could get it to a ...

European starlings just beat parrots at their own game – copying complex sounds. In a new study by researchers in Amsterdam ...

When you think of birds imitating sounds, parrots and starlings might come to mind. They're famous for copying human speech, car alarms, and even ringtone melodies. But what happens when you challenge ...

Bird banding at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary in South Wellfleet is delicate work, more like jewelry repair ...

Andrew Lydeard, 36, works in bird conservation with Alabama Audubon, the local chapter of the national society. Mason Currier ...

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