Many birds use their songs as a warning call to other birds. They use their calls to declare that a certain territory is theirs. Birds have different needs for the size of their territory ...

The cowbird uses 40 different notes, some so high we can't hear them. The chaffinch may sing his song half a million times in a season. Indeed, British musician David Hindley slowed bird song down ...

By training on birdsong recordings, the model successfully recreates sequences of Bengalese finch songs, revealing important ...

The analysis of the bird songs themselves points toward an entirely different system The mechanism of bird song has traditionally been compared to either a wind musical instrument or the human ...

It seems that songs with higher notes travel further and sound clearer in urban areas because they echo less off buildings. Accent-like differences have been reported for a number of different British ...

This syrinx allows them to produce two different notes at the same time, which is why birds have such distinctive songs. In the UK most of the singing is done by male birds (unlike in the tropics ...