How city life changes bird song and why many species do not adapt

Urbanization is rapidly transforming natural habitats and poses growing challenges for wildlife. One lesser-known consequence ...
Phoenix New Times

Birding by ear: Tips to identify bird songs by listening

Waking up to the dawn chorus of birds — one of the natural world’s greatest symphonies — is a joy like no other. It’s not surprising that bird-watching has become an increasingly popular hobby. A ...
Popular Science

Few people knew female birds had unique songs—until women started studying them

Kevin Omland is a professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Evangeline Rose is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Maryland. Karan Odom is a ...
Chicago Tribune

Outdoors column: Afternoon bird songs fill neighborhoods in March

Myriad bird species will be flying through northern Illinois in the next couple of months, filling the region with bird songs as they fly to their northern breeding grounds or establish nesting spots ...
The Conversation

Women have disrupted research on bird song, and their findings show how diversity can improve all fields of science

Americans often idealize scientists as unbiased, objective observers. But scientists are affected by conscious and unconscious biases, just as people in other fields are. Studies of birds’ vocal ...
The Conversation

Only the lonely: an endangered bird is forgetting its song as the species dies out

Just as humans learn languages, animals learn behaviours crucial for survival and reproduction from older, experienced individuals of the same species. In this way, important “cultures” such as bird ...