How a Bird’s Habitat Can Change Its Song
For the Bachman’s sparrow, whether a song is passed to the next generation could depend, in part, on the wind and trees.
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For the Bachman’s sparrow, whether a song is passed to the next generation could depend, in part, on the wind and trees.
Author Christian Cooper is never not birding — even at the movies. For season 8 of the Bring Birds Back, Christian shares the story of a bird out of place in the 2006 film Apocalyp...
“Split the Lark — and You’ll find the Music, ” Emily Dickinson taunted the materialists, “Now, do you doubt that your Bird was true?” In the wake of On the Origin of Species, the p...
Chicago-based artist and educator Holly Greenberg facilitates dozens of workshops to sew fabric birds and raise awareness of bird collisions. Do stories and artists like this matte...
several of the birds I see almost every day are non-native, but have been here so long I tend to take them for granted
The comedian Nick Revell once performed a show based on the premise of exploring birdsong. It was hilarious, funny enough to remember decades later. The premise was that beneath th...
Close reading is sometimes considered the special province of English professors and other poetry devotees. It is a kind of clever sleuthing that can make sense, for example, of a...
In the flatwoods of South Florida, tiny brown birds emerge from the underbrush to sing from the branches of pine trees. To human ears, their songs sound nearly identical, but any g...
"People tend to focus on birdsong, but there are many species making important sounds mechanically rather than vocally."
Learn how rock doves, otherwise known as the common pigeon, may have been one of humanity’s earliest companion birds, including as part of ritual feasts.
A male Eastern Bluebird stands on a wooden nestbox attached to a fence post. The bluebird’s song – and his alert presence - assert his claim to this territory. In the mid-20th Cent...
A recent visit to Teotihuacán — the ancient Mesoamerican city in present-day Mexico, built by earlier cultures around 600 BCE and later rediscovered by the Aztecs — left me wonder-...
New research from scientists at the Centre for Ecological Research in Hungary finds that some birds living in cities are changing their songs to compete with traffic and other urba...
The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an animal that can make new calls.
Urban birds flee women sooner than men across 37 species and 5 countries, and scientists studying birds fear women can't explain why. The post Urban Birds Fear Women More Than Men...
When trying to attract and recognize potential mates, animals are known to rely on various signals, traits and behaviors. In the case of birds, these signals can typically include...
In this episode, Marcus Rosten shares his involvement in a study of the American Woodcock with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The study revealed the s...
Birder and naturalist Marcus Rosten loves to watch the American Herring Gulls that flock to Freedom Park in Buffalo, New York. Once a final stop for freedom seekers on the Undergro...
A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery: Birds Birds of all kinds appear in alchemical texts. The birth of the philosopher’s stone from the union of the male and female substances at th...
Golden-cheeked Warblers, Black-throated Green Warblers, Townsend’s Warblers, and Hermit Warblers share similar songs and plumage. Though they all breed in different areas of North...
With swooping, poetic prose and vivid watercolors, “The Book of Birds” conveys not only wonder but also concern over the plight of many species.
Birders love language. We’re fascinated by bird names, pepper conversations with terms of our ‘sport’ (twitching, dipping, listing, splitting, and lumping), and gleefully use nickn...
Birds are often presented to us as symbols of grace, romance, freedom, and triumph. And to be fair, they do look convincing from a distance. But closer observation suggests that el...
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