The lovable Star Wars droid is helping to shed light on why some bird species are better at mimicking sounds than others ...

When you think of birds imitating sounds, parrots and starlings might come to mind. They're famous for copying human speech, ...

One of our favorite fellows competing on “The Masked Singer” season 9 is disguised as the Macaw. He wowed the crowd in his first appearance on March 22 with rollicking renditions of “Live Like You ...

Researchers conducted a global study of the factors that influence bird sounds, using more than 100,000 audio recordings from around the world. Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a ...

European starlings just beat parrots at their own game – copying complex sounds. In a new study by researchers in Amsterdam ...

If you were old enough to buy CDs in the ’90s, you may remember listening stations at superstores that featured music by some of nature’s noisiest creatures: birds. These CDs blended classical music ...

For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce new sounds. But a new article in The Quarterly Review of Biology reveals ...