African yellow warbler (Iduna natalensis) Dominic Sherony/Wikimedia Commons. Three species of the melodic African warbler bird refuse to get up early and sing their customary daybreak songs when the ...

Each year on the first Sunday in May, International Dawn Chorus Day invites people to do something very simple: get up before sunrise and listen. Step outside, or just open a window, and the first ...

Researchers have some new evidence about what makes birds make so much noise early in the morning, and it's not for some of the reasons they previously thought. For decades, a dominant theory about ...

Each spring, birds across America are in full voice. Cardinals chatter, sparrows sing and warblers warble. Birdsong lifts the human spirit – “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers,” after all. Yet birds ...