Three species of the melodic African warbler bird refuse to get up early and sing their customary daybreak songs when the weather is cold. This new discovery was made recently by a team of soundscape ...

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

Birdsong is often one of the first sounds heard as the day begins. From gardens and parks to forests and countryside, many birds become noticeably more vocal around sunrise. This early burst of sound ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A European robin, Erithacus rubecula, sings in a tree in Norfolk, England. Studies have linked the sound of birdsong to reduced ...

Waking up to the sound of birdsong is a great way to energize yourself for the day. In fact, one study featured in The Royal Society Publishing scientific journal suggests that hearing the sound of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Orange-crowned Warbler sitting on a branch, singing. Some of these songbirds will collect in "song neighborhoods" made of two to ...

Lauren Riters shares research on the factors that affect singing behavior in songbirds. Lauren Riters, professor in the department of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shares ...

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 ...

July: Heat, humidity, gnats, mosquitoes, dry, crunchy lawns, Barry sweating too much, and few birds singing. August: Ditto, ...

African yellow warbler (Iduna natalensis) Dominic Sherony/Wikimedia Commons. Three species of the melodic African warbler bird refuse to get up early and sing their customary daybreak songs when the ...