The best part of spring is the dawn chorus, the early morning torrent of birdsong that occurs during the nesting season. This is the clearest sign of the most dramatic natural event encountered by ...

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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 ...

I usually write answers to kids’ science questions early in the morning. I like how it’s so quiet – except for my bird neighbors singing and singing. I asked my friend Jennifer Phillips what’s going ...

European robins and their North American cousins begin singing before dawn, a behavior scientists attribute to biological, ...

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 ...

Every morning, before the sun is fully up and long before most people are ready to face the day, birds fill the air with chatter. It may sound like chaos, but researchers say there’s a clear purpose ...

Ithaca, NY— New research published today in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B finds that territorial behavior and diet help explain why some birds sing more often at dawn.