New research shows how bird songs evolve with population changes. Young birds drive new songs, while older ones preserve ...

Birds change their tune over time depending on age, movement and memory, similar to how human dialects are shaped, ...

The innovative key to this discovery? The ghosts of future finches. The new study shows that beak-driven changes to songs themselves can impact species recognition, and thus drive the separation ...

The song of the chingolo can be heard across South America. But young songbirds were no longer learning the tunes of their ...

These boldly colored migratory birds spend the colder months in the southern United States and begin returning to Michigan in ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Arizona have found a link between vocal changes and the aging brain in zebra finch songbirds, which could help lead to earlier diagnoses for disorders such as ...

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"Although much simpler, the sequences of a bird's song syllables are organized in a similar way to human language, so birds provide a good model to explore the neurobiology of language," said ...

New research from the University of Oxford has provided fresh insights into how bird songs evolve over time. The analysis is based on over 100,000 songs.

New research has provided fresh insights into how bird songs evolve over time, revealing a significant role for population dynamics in shaping song diversity and change. The findings are based on an ...

Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” remains No. 1 on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart for a thirtieth week, tying for ...

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