Birds threatened by a predator often call out to encourage other birds to make noise and fly about, repelling the attacker as part of a “mobbing flock”. Now, researchers have found that male lyrebirds ...

The male superb lyrebird of Australia is known for its astounding abilities to mimic the songs of other birds and for almost perfectly replicating human-generated sounds such as camera shutters and, ...

Birds that live in bunches work each other up into a reproductive frenzy with their songs, according to research that confirms an old hypothesis. As far back as the 1930s, ornithologists proposed that ...

You've seen birds that can copy human speech, but the Menura novaehollandiae, better known as the superb kyrebird, takes this a step further. As a bird with perhaps the most advanced sound-mimicking ...

Ornithologists have discovered a male bird in South America that attracts mates by rubbing its wings together to generate “songs.” The male club-winged manakin, a colorful, sparrow-size bird that ...

The Perot Museum of Nature and Science is a place of enchantment, especially now with the very organic exhibit “Birds of Paradise” taking place. In addition to the usual touch-and-feel science ...