To mark International Dawn Chorus day we asked wildlife experts to make their case for why their favourite songbird deserves your vote. We hope their words will inspire you to step outside and soak up ...

Each year on the first Sunday in May, International Dawn Chorus Day invites people to do something very simple: get up before ...

The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust has shared tips on how to make the most of International Dawn ...

My garden Siskins are stealing the show with two or maybe three pairs still visiting.

Birds living in noisy cities change their songs, but they do not all adapt in the same way scientists once believed.

Calling someone a bird-brain may not be the insult it was intended to be. Although small in size, some birds’ brains, such as ...

Urbanization is rapidly transforming natural habitats and poses growing challenges for wildlife. One lesser-known consequence ...

It’s much easier to identify bird songs once you understand a few tricks. The most important thing to know is that most of ...

Birds sing the most around an hour before dawn, when the air is at its stillest. Theoretically, this enables sounds to travel further, making song up to 20 times more effective than if sung at midday.

When Rachel Carson wrote the environmental classic "Silent Spring" in 1962, she warned that unchecked human impacts might create a silent future. Forty years later, biologists uncovered a striking ...

A young zebra finch learning to sing may not sound like much at first, just a babbling stream of chirps and whistles. But ...

Musically inclined mice inflate their throats like balloons to sing their whistling tunes. The rodential aria is produced by inflatable air sacs in the mice’s airway, researchers report May 6 in ...