The robin is regularly crowned the UK's favourite bird. With its inquisitive nature and unmistakable red breast, it's a ...

Here’s a fun way to combine both: Gather up a few friends and go birding sometime during the Memorial Day weekend (May 25-27). But — and here’s the challenging part — you’ll only be counting female ...

Source: fir0002, via Wikimedia Commons. Traditionally, birdsong has been viewed as a male trait, and this bias has dominated research on the behavior. “For a long time, scientists thought that female ...

The majority of British robins don’t migrate in the winter - Sloot Gardening during the winter is an altogether different experience compared to the summer. Throughout the warmer months you become ...

Female birds sing. That is one of the revelations of our 2020 study on one of the most abundant, widespread, well-studied bird species in the world: the barn swallow. Despite the well over 1,000 ...

As summer draws on, spring’s dawn chorus of birdsong fades. There is no sudden hard stop, just a gradual decrescendo as various voices drop out when their nesting cycle nears its ending. But even in ...

Every morning at about 7 since late February, the cardinal has been singing its “Cheer, cheer, cheer” song in my yard. Now the American robin is singing, “Cheerily, cheerio,” adding to the growing ...

Female European robins (Erithacus rubecula) sing throughout autumn and winter – and their songs are just as physically and mentally challenging as those of males. Outside the breeding season, when ...

Why birds sing intensely in a dawn chorus during the early morning has long been debated. Evidence gathered from observing birds in the wild offers a fresh perspective on what might drive this ...

Night singers like Nightingales seek mates under cover of darkness. Mockingbirds mimic sounds; males sing all night to attract mates. European Robins adapt to urban noise by singing at night. Birds ...

As dawn breaks on a misty Welsh morning, the earliest birds to break into song are likely to include European robins, followed by blackbirds and song thrushes and then a plethora of other species as ...