Why birds and their songs are good for our mental health Birds are a way to connect with nature, ... Natural stimuli, such as birdsong, may allow us to engage in ...

The vocal ability of birds has inspired: poets and musicians, from Chaucer to Wordsworth, from Handel to Respighi. Birdsong can be a natural phenomenon of intense beauty.

Discover how bird songs can be your natural guide in understanding the ecosystem of your garden. In "Listen to the Birds to Find Out What's Happening in Your Garden," we explore how the presence and ...

By Liz Kimbrough In the sunbaked Galápagos Islands, a male finch perches on a branch, hearing what sounds like another bird’s song. But something’s not quite right. The song is slower and ...

Your ears, on the other hand, can detect sound in a 360-degree circle that extends around you and above you; a hemisphere of detection, if you will. As a result, any would-be birdwatcher must learn ...

A Song in Their Heart. Male songbirds are renowned for the songs they produce to attract mates and defend territories, but birds sing in other contexts, too.

The bird was calling to its mate who had died, and Jacobi quickly recorded the bird's song. Jacobi recounted his sighting of the bird in a 2018 article by The Rumpus. The bird flew close to Jacobi ...

As spring begins, so does a fresh song at daybreak, unique to the season. Just before the sun rises, birds start singing their melodies, creating a chirpy symphony. “It's the epitome of spring ...

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 ...

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 ...

The researchers spent three years collecting over twenty thousand hours of sound recordings from a wild population of great tits (Parus major) in Oxfordshire, which has been studied for the past 77 ...