You’re outside when suddenly you hear an unfamiliar chirp. Looking around, you wonder, “Is it a squirrel?” “Is it a bat?” And ...

A common cuckoo calls from deep within the trees, its presence felt but never seen. Its song carries across the landscape—a ...

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 ...

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