Garner Holt’s new robotics kit lets you build your own animatronic Tiki Bird at home! Details on the new DIY home ...

Mea Culpa: I know why the caged metal bird won’t sing John Rentoul on mixed metaphors, split infinitives and variant spellings in this week’s Independent Sunday 22 June 2025 06:00 BST ...

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. -William Blake It is usual and customary these days to forewarn with disclaimers such as "the following material contains scenes of a ...

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A new study offers a compelling explanation that shifts the focus from the atmosphere to the animals themselves. Researchers ...

So if birds sing so much in spring, it's because this season corresponds to the breeding period, and singing is their primary means of communication to attract a mate, defend territory and assert ...

While some birds hatch knowing the songs they will sing as adults, some chicks babble just like human babies and experience a critical period when, as nestlings. they need to hear adults and ...

The reason why birds make such a racket at dawn is still unclear. But researchers are now pouring cold water on one popular ...

Another is that birds spend their time singing at dawn because there's low light and it's a bad time to look for food. "We basically didn't find much support for some of these environmental cues which ...

For decades, a dominant theory about why birds sing at dawn — called the "dawn chorus" — has been that they can be heard farther and more clearly at that time.