Some birds sing to attract a mate. Others dance or display colorful feathers. But in the moonlit forests and shrublands of ...

Scientists discovered that scissor-tailed nightjars create strange courtship sounds by snapping the bones in their wings ...

In northern Argentina, one bird courts romance by snapping its wrists together, producing a sound scientists have puzzled ...

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 ...

We become desensitized to the common sounds around us—car alarms, chattering squirrels, the mechanical functions of modern living kicking on and off throughout the day. If you had asked me a week ago ...

Part 1. 'I don't do calls' -- Crossing the sound barrier -- Tone and timpre -- Pitch and frequency -- Rhythm and timing -- Part 2. Put it all together and what have you got? -- Simple calls -- Simple ...

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