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Birds, although they have larynges, use a different organ to sing. Called a syrinx, it's a uniquely avian feature. Now, a team that brings together physics, biology, computation and engineering finds ...

Very rarely are bird chirps heard indoors — maybe when a bird is accidentally trapped inside a supermarket, or maybe when one is nearby a window. Music, however, has provided a solution for those who ...

Their songs brighten up spring mornings, but all those joyful sounds mean serious business in the avian world. Spring weather has finally arrived, ushering in a sensory feast of nature's sights, ...

The world is full of unusual animal sounds — and among the more unusual is the call of bare-throated tiger heron. Greg Budney, a biologist from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, recorded the call ...

All air-breathing vertebrates have a larynx—a structure of muscles and folds that protects the trachea and, in many animals, vibrates and modulates to produce a stunning array of sounds. But birds, ...