They can also copy non-bird sounds like car alarms, human voices, engines, and even R2D2 from Star Wars. Starlings learn to mimic various sounds and even pass them down from one generation to the ...

Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure.

This is another bird song that sounds different in other regions of the country. No matter where you go, they have the basic song structure, but the regional accents make cardinals sound slightly ...

Rockefeller University neuroscientist Erich Jarvis discusses how studying vocal learning in birds can help us better understand our own brains.

Birds, which have the longest necks of all terrestrial vertebrates, can use the long necks as resonators to amplify the sound. “If you're small, you don't have too much energy available to produce a ...

Birds in Copenhagen are giving new meaning to the phrase "bird calls," as ornithologists there say that birds are incorporating the sound of a ringing cellular phone into songs.

We have captured those sounds and are using them to keep birds at bay. At present we have achieved 89% success rate using call sequence of 17.36 minutes duration of 17 species at 110 Db.

“Although the ability to copy sounds from conspecifics is wide-spread in birds”, the authors write in their paper, “it is strikingly rare in mammals, and among primates it is uniquely human.” ...

The bowerbird mimics by directly listening to the calls of other species Scientists believe they are a step closer to discovering why some species of bird mimic the sounds made by other birds, animals ...

Scientists believe they are a step closer to discovering why some species of bird mimic the sounds made by other birds.

The bowerbird mimics by directly listening to the calls of other species Scientists believe they are a step closer to discovering why some species of bird mimic the sounds made by other birds, animals ...