Volunteers have found new pairs of powerful owls in South Australia's south-east, where the species is rarely seen. The owls' calls were recorded as part of an acoustic monitoring project across the ...

More than 20 species of bird around the world use a similar “whining” alarm call to warn birds like cuckoos are around. The call seems to be understood across species, and its specific use hints at ...

Parasitic birds lay their eggs in the nests of other species to offload the expense of raising their young. It's very economical! However, this puts an undue burden on the host birds, whose own ...

Birds may have revealed an instinctive yet learned language, giving scientists new clues into how communication evolves across species. What makes this bird call unique? A new study, published in ...

The relationship between sounds in words and their meaning is thought to be mostly arbitrary. Some linguists and behavioural ecologists, however, argue that the instinctive vocal responses that humans ...

When a bird hears this call, it instinctively investigates. During that moment, explained co-author Damián Blasi, a language scientist at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain, the bird begins to associate ...

In India, an acoustic recording from August 24, 2025 confirms that the nocturnal bird called 'Jerdon's courser' is not extinct.

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Barn owls, in particular, are on another level. Known for their pale heart-shaped face and shrill calls, these fascinating ...

Charles Darwin suggested in 1871 that spoken language originated with instinctive sounds, like squeals or yells, which humans then learned to imitate and modify for specific purposes. Now, scientists ...

What started as a simple curiosity about an unfamiliar bird call turned into a journey of mindfulness, discovery, and ...