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This critically endangered bird's song was about to disappear. Scientists saved it by recruiting some wild vocal tutors
Less than a century ago, huge flocks of regent honeyeaters flitted all over southeastern Australia. Today, they’re one of the ...
A nearly identical bird has been reclassified as a new species in Japan, thanks to advanced DNA analysis and song comparisons ...
Research, bird song analysis, and DNA analysis revealed that the Ijima’s Leaf Warbler and Tokara Leaf Warbler are two ...
In a new study, wild regent honeyeaters became vocal tutors, teaching their disappearing song to birds in a captive breeding ...
A study by the University of Vienna and Anglia Ruskin University challenges this belief. Female birds do sing, and in many ...
Most of us have heard the phrase "it takes a village" when it comes to childcare. This age-old saying holds true for some ...
The songs a bird sings while dreaming have been revealed for the first time. Researchers at the University of Buenos Aires created a way to track the vocal muscle activity of birds as they sleep, and ...
Song allows the bird to "speak" better than and other family of creatures. It is the perfect medium for communicating over long distances, or when it is hard to see the singer - and the audience: for ...
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