The birdsong marks the arrival of a season and the arrival of those who have returned. Springtime around here is hearing that birdsong LOUD and clear. “The only reason they are here, back here, is to ...

I usually write answers to kids’ science questions early in the morning. I like how it’s so quiet – except for my bird neighbors singing and singing. I asked my friend Jennifer Phillips what’s going ...

If you’ve ever been jolted awake by a noisy flock of birds at dawn, you’re not alone in wondering what all the fuss is about. Every morning, before the sun is fully up and long before most people are ...

The sedge warbler is a small yet charming bird often found in wetlands and reed beds. Its soft, melodic song echoes through ...

If you saw the “00s pigeon sound” trend on TikTok a while ago, you’ll know some ’90s and ’00s babies think the call was much more common in their youth than it is now. We think that could be down to a ...

Researchers have some new evidence about what makes birds make so much noise early in the morning, and it's not for some of the reasons they previously thought. For decades, a dominant theory about ...

If you've ever been woken up before sunrise by the chirping of birds outside your window, you may have wondered: why do birds sing so loud, so early in the morning? The cacophony is mostly males, ...

As dawn breaks on a misty Welsh morning, the earliest birds to break into song are likely to include European robins, followed by blackbirds and song thrushes and then a plethora of other species as ...