To hear a nightingale sing had been for years one of my heart’s unfulfilled desires; had I not heard him praised in books, poems, and songs, especially songs ? Every one knows of more nightingale ...

FOR two years now, in the spring, the British Broadcasting Corporation has been getting down on its hands and knees and crawling about in the underbrush of a Surrey wood, with a microphone in its ...

Long before birds, long before whales, insects have been thrumming, scraping, and drumming complex beats out into the world. David Rothenberg decided to investigate the resounding beats of cicadas, ...

Nightingales match the pitch of their whistle songs to those of their rivals in real time. Nightingales are well known for their exceptional singing abilities. Researchers from the Max Planck ...

The song of the male nightingale tells females how good a father he will be, according to research. The study shows that better singers will feed their offspring more often, and that they advertise ...

Nightingales are well known for their exceptional singing abilities. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence now found that nightingales can flexibly adjust the pitch of ...