Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For the past 10 years, every spring, Sam Lee has taken up residence in the woods in Sussex to sing with the ...

The song of the male nightingale tells females how good a father he will be, according to research. The study shows that better singers will feed their offspring more often, and that they advertise ...

Nightingales match the pitch of their whistle songs to those of their rivals in real time. Nightingales are well known for their exceptional singing abilities. Researchers from the Max Planck ...

Nightingales can adjust the pitch of their whistle songs to precisely match the songs of other nightingales, just as we humans modulate our tone of voice during a conversation. The common nightingale ...

Nightingales show many human-like qualities in their social interactions, their calls and responses. They have 200 phrases which they are constantly improvising, repeating and adapting. Hearing us ...