The 2025 UMass Garden Calendar comes out every fall, just as we are putting our gardens to bed for the winter. As always, the ...

As you reward feathered friends with food and water in your backyard ... nature as they sing their melodic songs. Although birdwatching is a fascinating hobby, though, not all birds are welcome ...

Scientists have found a trigger for social learning in wild animals. An experiment on great tits has pinpointed a single ...

In the sunbaked Galápagos Islands, a male finch perches on a branch, hearing what sounds like another bird’s song. But ...

In the world of zebra finches, males sing, and females were thought to just ... of females shaping complex behaviors. As with many bird species, only male zebra finches are able to learn the ...

New study reveals surprising female influence on song learning in zebra finches As with many bird species, only male zebra finches ... Females, on the other hand, do not sing; their calls are innate ...

Amy Tan, whose new book The Backyard Bird Chronicles, started as a private nature journal of birds in her garden in Sausalito, came to birding as a response to American politics, specifically, ...

And the songs they sing are not to persuade you to hear a different narrative. Singing is what they do. Birds sing bird songs. They can’t help it, and it’s got nothing to do with you or who ...