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.

Using AI to learn a bird's individual song

Darin McNeil, Ph.D., an assistant professor of wildlife management in the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, is partnering with the University of ...
CNN

This bird’s ear-splitting song could be the loudest in the world. It’s nearly deafened potential mates

Many bird species are the expert wooers of the animal kingdom, courting mates with melodic love songs and grand displays of affection. The bellbird isn’t one of them. It prefers to blare its ...
Lowell's First Look on MSN

The restless viking: Feeding song birds at Kensington Metropark

The following article was written by Martha Hayden and originally appeared on The Restless Viking website on June 10, 2025.
Salon

Scientists translated a bird’s brainwaves into its song

Imagine being able to watch musical notes flying through the air as your favorite relaxing song plays gently through the breeze. In a sense, scientists are one step closer to being able to make ...
The New Yorker

A Bird Song for the Moon

Since 2007, amateur (and less amateur) astronauts have been vying to land a privately funded spacecraft on the moon, in response to a challenge from Google and the nonprofit XPrize, which incentivizes ...
The Atlantic

The Birdsong That Took Over North America

The birds were singing something strange. Ken Otter and Scott Ramsay first noticed it in the early 2000s, when they were recording white-throated sparrows in Prince George, a city in western Canada.
Phys.org

Global study on bird song frequency

An analysis of the songs of most of the world's passerine birds reveals that the frequency at which birds sing mostly depends on body size, but is also influenced by sexual selection. The new study ...