The first time this little Starling speaks, they genuinely sound less like a bird and more like somebody’s tiny feathered ...

Finding a mate in the animal kingdom is not easy. It is often a competitive and dramatic process that requires substantial ...

Custom-made instruments are the key to scoring for composers Anže Rozman, Kara Talve and musician Russell Emanuel. Emanuel is ...

Some birds sing to attract a mate. Others dance or display colorful feathers. But in the moonlit forests and shrublands of ...

When a male Anna’s hummingbird pulls out of a courtship dive at roughly 60 miles per hour, the air ripping through his outer ...

In northern Argentina, one bird courts romance by snapping its wrists together, producing a sound scientists have puzzled ...

Summer has arrived — but the sounds of summer were better in the ’70s. As a kid, I woke every morning to the birds chirping ...

Scientists discovered that scissor-tailed nightjars create strange courtship sounds by snapping the bones in their wings ...

Shoebills are among the strangest and most intimidating birds alive today, towering over African swamps with gigantic ...

A middle school boy chirped his way into people’s hearts, becoming a viral sensation for his special talent. Samuel Henderson stunned his schoolmates as he took to the stage and made insanely accurate ...

My father, John Arthur McKelvey Shera, was a revered doctor in the city of Ipswich and a survivor of the Kokoda Trail. He ...

Golden-crowned kinglets are the tiniest songbirds that can survive a Maine winter. They do so by making lots of babies, perpetuating the species despite the high mortality induced by harsh winter ...