Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure. But the conditions that contribute to the immense diversity of the sounds they make ...

If you are interested in birds, you really have to be interested in birds songs — and really any kind of sounds birds make. Generally the term “bird calls” is used to encompass sounds of any kind, but ...

When you’re birding by ear, you use the same skills as when you’re recognizing music; listening to sounds, patterns, changes ...

When you’re birding by ear, you use the same skills as when you’re recognizing music; listening to sounds, patterns, changes in pitch, in tone and in volume, but in nature rather than in music. You ...

Some birds—including blue jays—are strong vocal learners that can mimic other birds and make lots of different sounds. Jocelyn Anderson via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 3.0 Birds can make an array of ...

The findings of a new study about communication between birds also offer key insights into the origins of language.