A symphony of synapses fires every time a songbird sings. For Erich Jarvis, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University, the neural pathways he finds particularly interesting inside a bird’s brain are ...

SAN ANTONIO – Students at Woodlawn Academy are exploring and connecting to nature, while learning about birds. Middle school students are learning to identify birds and the role birds play in the ...

Come and enjoy the annual Spring Plant Extravaganza to be held from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, April 25, at 507 N. Calhoun Street, the home of Tallahassee Garden Club. The theme of this year’s ...

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People ask me a lot of questions about birds. So let’s clear up some things. • “When do the hummingbirds get here?” They are always here. In the Bay Area, Anna’s hummingbirds are common all year round ...

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 ...

Winter is an excellent time to look for birds. Most of the leaves are gone from the trees and the birds are more visible. Several bird species are here in East Tennessee only during the cold weather ...

Some songbirds learn to sing by listening to other birds. Some other animals can learn to copy sounds. But what does that tell us about human speech? Sonja Vernes from the Max Planck Institute for ...