Birdsong, by contrast, is assumed to be thoughtless. Some argue that birds sing not because they like singing, but because biology forces them to sing. "Music is what we say it is.

It’s not every day that a dog gets a personal theme song during mealtime, but that’s exactly what happens in this adorable ...

Deep within South America's cloud forests lives the club-winged manakin, a bird unlike any other. Instead of singing, the male manakin creates a musical tone with its wings, rubbing specialized ...

Why is it a ‘dawn’ chorus? But why birds sing in the early morning is still “an open question,” says Mike Webster, an ornithologist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. “There's a lot of ...

asks Tony Fulford from Cambridgeshire in the UK. We find out how birds produce multiple notes at once, which one has the widest repertoire of songs, and why males like to show off quite so much.

When awake, Zebra Finches sing a well-regulated line of staccato notes. But their sleeping song movements are fragmented, disjointed and sporadic—“rather like a dream,” Mindlin says.

The app, which is free for iOS and Android, can identify birds quickly and precisely based on photos of them, their singing and other characteristics.

In footage showing the moment of the “duet,” Timokhina plays a few notes and a few seconds later, the bird replies back with the same tune. Credit: @‌timokhinaviolin via Storyful ...

The only bird that plays music with its wings: Meet the club-winged manakinNature does not fall short when it comes to blessing the human eyes and ears with surprising marvels! One among these ...