We commonly think of a song as a series of musical notes that are pleasing to the ear. But it’s also a functional category. Although many female birds sing some, ...

Deep within South America's cloud forests lives the club-winged manakin, a bird unlike any other. Instead of singing, the ...

Violent Femmes Celebrate 30th Anniversary of 'Why Do Birds Sing?' The CD edition also offers new liner notes from acclaimed songwriter and journalist, Jeff Slate. By: TV News Desk Jul. 27, 2021 ...

THIS is a very pretty little book, with many charming illustrations of American singing-birds, and numerous attempts to represent their songs in our musical notation. It would seem as if the songs ...

Birds also have a larynx, but they use a different organ to vocalize: a syrinx. The syrinx is a complex and powerful voice-box. Unlike the larynx, it allows birds to do things like sing two different ...