Scientists find some parallels with human speech in cheeps and trills of birdsong. If zebra finches notice timbral features more acutely than temporal features, I wonder if certain populations of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lead photo by Kevin Duclos White-throated dippers are brown-feathered, plump little songbirds; they usually live along riverbanks ...

A US-based researcher has won $100,000 prize for doing something straight out of a Disney movie: figuring out what birds are actually saying to each other. Dr Julie Elie, a scientist at the University ...

Birds separated by vast geographic distances and millions of years of evolution share a remarkably similar learned vocal warning to identify parasitic enemies near their nests, an international team ...