Biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have released the first broad-scale, comparative, fine-grained analysis linking the amplitude, or volume, of a bird's song to its vocal ...

Researchers have tracked muscle contractions in a bird's vocal tract, and reconstructed the song it was silently singing in its sleep. The resulting audio is a very specific call, allowing the ...

Laura Molles is so attuned to birds that she can tell where birds of some species are from just by listening to their song.

One of the classic ways to test perception in birds in the wild is through so-called playback experiments, in which investigators play songs to birds and measure their behavioral response.

But, spring is when birds sing with “song,” a specific phenomenon associated with the nesting season, as many birds use vocalizations to declare their territorial boundaries or to signal to ...

As anyone who has tried to hold a conversation in a noisy room knows, it is sometimes easier to rely on hand gestures than to ...

It is possible to re-create a bird's song by reading only its brain activity, shows a first proof-of-concept study. The researchers were able to reproduce the songbird's complex vocalizations down ...