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An environmental group in Stratford, P.E.I., has been listening in on birds, recording their sounds and using that data to learn more about them. Throughout the fall, the Stratford Area Watershed ...
With apologies for contradicting the weird stickers and meme-obsessed teenagers you’ve been seeing for the last few years, ...
Birds make beautiful chirping songs, but have you ever seen them make music with their wings? That is one of the skills of ...
Budgerigars are some of the chattiest birds, and that is reflected in their brains. Budgie brains contain a map of vocal sounds, which is similar to that found in the human brain and has not been ...
Many birds made what Bond described as a "gut-wrenching crunching sound" when pressed on their sternum. "In the most severely impacted birds, you can hear that while they are still alive," he added.
In this clip from Love and Rivals, the second episode of Secret World of Sound, we follow the male lyrebird, who can replicate the songs of more than 20 different birds, including a kookaburra's ...
These birds can learn entire sentences, sounds, and even songs, and they articulate them with surprising clarity. Males, in particular, excel in mimicry, and with the right training, they can ...
"Adult birds eat plastic at sea, thinking that it is food, and then they feed it to their chicks, who can't feed themselves yet," Dr. Gilmour says.
A 2014 study by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Smithsonian Institution on the number of bird deaths due to glass collision revealed that such accidents “likely kill between 365 ...
Researchers explained that traffic sounds may drown out birdsong, forcing the animals to become physically aggressive when protecting their territory A certain species of bird in the Galápagos ...
Some clips show birds mimicking other animals like dogs, people and other bird species. "Some species in my collection can mimic 30 to 40 other species in their song," he said.
One such behaviour is when the parent birds kill or eat their own offspring. It sounds brutal, but in the animal kingdom, survival often goes beyond being sentimental.