Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lead photo by Kevin Duclos White-throated dippers are brown-feathered, plump little songbirds; they usually live along riverbanks ...

Scientists find some parallels with human speech in cheeps and trills of birdsong. If zebra finches notice timbral features more acutely than temporal features, I wonder if certain populations of ...

Birds separated by vast geographic distances and millions of years of evolution share a remarkably similar learned vocal warning to identify parasitic enemies near their nests, an international team ...