Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure. But the conditions that contribute to the immense diversity of the sounds they make ...

Some birds—including blue jays—are strong vocal learners that can mimic other birds and make lots of different sounds. Jocelyn Anderson via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 3.0 Birds can make an array of ...

Great tit chicks, for example, stop begging in response to a parent’s alarm call. And a study of blackcaps found that under ...

The myth of the quiet bird Before we dive in, we’d like to clarify that “quiet pet birds” refers to pet birds that are quiet ...