CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In 1868, the naturalist Charles Darwin wrote that differences in plumage coloration between male and female birds of the same species were likely the result of sexual selection: ...
According to birding experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman, the hermit thrush looks similar in appearance to the Swainson’s thrush, however, the hermit has a more reddish tail. In cold weather, it’s the ...
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Birds have local accents and city lights are changing how they sing
Each year on the first Sunday in May, International Dawn Chorus Day invites people to do something very simple: get up before ...
Authors set out to correct under-representation of female sounds – and found some surprising revelations When we hear the beautiful call of a bird from a high bough, we’re told it’s likely to be a ...
Have you heard? Bird songs are filling the landscape as we progress through spring and migrating songbirds return to their ...
SEVERAL years ago, while reading in an old number of the Atlantic Monthly an admirable description by Wilson Flagg of the song of the hermit thrush, I came upon the following sentence : “ I have not ...
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