News tagged with birdsongs

Bird songs change with environment

Biology / Plants & Animals

May 20, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Just as a changing radio landscape has made it tough for Foghat to get much airplay these days, so it is for birdsongs according to new research published in The American Naturalist.

Why the swamp sparrow is hitting the high notes

Biology /

Jan 09, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Birdsongs are used extensively as models for animal signaling and human speech, offering a glimpse of how our own communicating abilities developed. A new study by Adrienne DuBois, a graduate student at the ...

From humming fish to Puccini: Vocal communication evolved with ancient species

Biology /

Jul 17, 2008 | 4 / 5 (5) | 2

It's a long way from the dull hums of the amorous midshipman fish to the strains of a Puccini aria – or, alas, even to the simplest Celine Dion melody. But the neural circuitry that led to the human love song – not to mention ...

Young songbirds babble before they learn to sing

Biology /

May 01, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 1

Young songbirds babble before they can mimic an adult’s song, much like their human counterparts. Now, in work that offers insights into how birds—and perhaps people—learn new behaviors, MIT scientists have found that immature ...

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