This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a bird market in the Mediterranean tourist town ...

Bird song travels best at night ... to face each other and with beaks raised and wings uplifted launch into a wild clangor, the female replying to the quick honking of the male with repeated ...

However, another thing we admire about birds is the sweet songs that they sing. Birds sing for many reasons. They do it to communicate with each other, attract mates, establish their territory ...

In a note of conservation hope, the scientists are using their recordings of wild birds to teach captive honeyeaters their own song. There is already a project to release captive-bred regent ...

However, when young of the same species were exposed to taped recordings of a wild chaffinch song (tutor songs), they sang species-specific songs as adults. This demonstrated that birds must learn ...

There are over 600 species of wild bird living in the UK, many of which can be found in the hills, fields and forests of our countryside, each one with their own song and appearance. But can you ...

An album made up entirely of the tweets and squawks of endangered Australian birds has debuted in the top five of the country's Aria music charts. Songs of Disappearance is surpassing the likes of ...