Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great opera star Beverly Sills could produce some of the prettiest tones ever emitted by an animal. But a great many songbirds ...

There are lots of sparrows. Excepting birders, they get little play or press. I was mildly self-disgusted to scroll back through the roster of nearly 400 Dispatch columns I’ve written to date and see ...

I was out back early this morning, drinking coffee and recording the morning chorus of bird songs with Merlin, the Cornell Lab birding App. There is a feature in Merlin called Sound ID that listens to ...

Most bird species are slow to change their tune, preferring to stick with tried-and-true songs to defend territories and attract females. Now, with the help of citizen scientists, researchers have ...

The great opera star Beverly Sills could produce some of the prettiest tones ever emitted by an animal. But a great many songbirds are her equal, albeit in very different ways. The Henslow’s sparrow?