Any parents out there will be familiar with the misery our kids subject us to when they have a new favorite song. They ask to hear it over and over without regard for the rest of us. TAMARA KEITH, ...

I was out back early this morning, drinking coffee and recording the morning chorus of bird songs with Merlin, the Cornell Lab birding App. There is a feature in Merlin called Sound ID that listens to ...

What a male song sparrow sings in each moment is dependent on what he sang 30 minutes ago and suggests that the birds don't have a 'bird brain,' but incredible memory and recall capacities. Any good ...

Over 20 years, scientists tracked the transformation of the traditional trill of a common bird from western Canada to Ontario. By Cara Giaimo Even if you’re not a bird person, you probably know the ...

Like humans, some song sparrows are more effusive than others, at least when it comes to defending their territories. New findings from the University of Washington show that consistent individual ...

Think telling sparrows apart is just not worth the effort? Our tips might change your mind. Identify sparrows by habitat, ...

The birds were singing something strange. Ken Otter and Scott Ramsay first noticed it in the early 2000s, when they were recording white-throated sparrows in Prince George, a city in western Canada.

Researchers developed a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) assay for the simultaneous measurement of 11 types of estrogen from song sparrows using derivatization with ...

Song sparrows have a wide repertoire of tunes — and seem to be judicious about not repeating a certain song too often. Rather than sing the same playlist every time, they hit shuffle. Any parents out ...