Welcome to rehearsal time at the Collected Wisdom Symphony Orchestra. This week we're working on a contemporary Canadian classic – Anne Murray's Snowbird. Well, it scares the mice away. French ...

A new study has confirmed the belief that birdsongs evolve as a result of age, population dynamics and movement of the birds. Researchers gathered thousands of hours of audio of great tits (Parus ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. To us all bird song sounds the same, but to another bird it can provide a deep insight into the soul.

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 ...

The songs of superb fairy-wrens can indicate the bird's personality, according to new research. Birds with a more exploratory nature were found to have more elements or notes, while aggressive ...

A strange mathematical rule organizes the words of all human languages. A recent study reveals that birds also seem to follow this logic. For decades, linguists have observed that the most frequently ...

We were holidaying in the Western Ghats, when a beautiful whistling caught our ears. A friend reacted, “Sounds like a kid whistling on the way back from school?” Bingo! It was the Whistling School Boy ...