Researchers have tracked muscle contractions in a bird's vocal tract, and reconstructed the song it was silently singing in its sleep. The resulting audio is a very specific call, allowing the team to ...

The songs a bird sings while dreaming have been revealed for the first time. Researchers at the University of Buenos Aires created a way to track the vocal muscle activity of birds as they sleep, and ...

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2024 — For more than 20 years, researchers have known that areas of birds’ brains dedicated to singing show neural patterns during sleep akin to the ones they use while awake and ...

Researchers report how the interplay of genes and experience influences differences in learned birdsong. Previous studies have shown that differences in birdsong within a species reflect variation in ...

The song of the chingolo can be heard across South America. But young songbirds were no longer learning the tunes of their elders—until scientists stepped in. A rufous-collared sparrow, Zonotrichia ...