Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets striking water, a quick burst followed by a fading ripple.

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With seven adult children, Meredith Thornton of Arkansas keeps her phone on every night, a habit she adopted when her eldest first got a driver’s license. “Even though they’re grown, it scares me to ...

This is the second of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the second of eight other consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore ...