It looks far too tiny to produce such a song, a liquid glissando that rings through the woods. The winter wren is a little brown bird with a very big song. It’s a demitasse of a bird, weighing less ...

Discover how the male splendid fairy-wren uses butcherbird calls to attract female attention through vocal hitchhiking. You'd think birds would hush up at the sound of a predator, especially if that ...

Not all male partners are bad listeners. When male plain-tailed wrens sing complicated interweaving duets with females, their brains buzz with so much activity that it’s likely that they pay more ...

There’s a welcome sound absent from my yard this spring and I’m not sure why. Bill Moyer of Coopersburg reports the same thing. “I have eight bird boxes out primarily for wrens,” he writes. “In past ...

Birds are singing from pre-dawn to post-dusk in a heady mixture of trills, chirps, whistles and buzzes. Our inner ears are primed for our favorite birds: "Oh, there's an oriole," or "Hey, that's the ...

Most birds build some sort of nest where the eggs are incubated. In many species, the female does that job, and in many others both females and males participate. But in a few species, it is the male ...

A male Rufous-crowned Emu-wren defends his patch of spinifex I caught this pic of the enigmatic Rufous-crowned Emu-wren Stipiturus ruficeps just after dawn yesterday at a well-known spot on the road ...