The sound of a horse's whinny is created by the low frequency vibration of vocal cords combined with a high frequency whistle, a new study reveals.

Warble duets seem linked to active territory defense. Physical fights in the wild were always preceded by warble duets. Playback experiments also showed that parrots increased warble duets when ...

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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced Thursday that it had five preliminary positive cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, in Suffolk County.

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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny ...

Abstract: Automated recognition of bird vocalizations plays a critical role in ecological research, particularly in challenging environments. In this paper, we propose a frequency-aware Deep Learning ...

Neural tissue normally dies quickly without oxygen. Yet bird retinas—among the most energy-demanding tissues in the animal kingdom—function permanently without it. This may be relevant in future ...

Some 150 million years ago, Europe was tropical — and mostly underwater. The entire continent was closer to the equator than it is today, and what is now Germany and its neighbouring countries was ...

When COVID-19 lockdowns emptied city streets, urban environments changed almost overnight. New research suggests that Los Angeles city birds responded just as quickly, with measurable shifts in beak ...

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A woman's theory about birds has gone viral, as people looked around their own homes and found evidence. TikTok user @corndogcalamari, who asked for her name not to be used, is 31 and Vietnamese ...