U researchers connected starling bird's ability to replicate cowbird calls to the vocal learning strategies that humans use to speak.

Bright flags in the breeze. — haiku by Harry Morgan, Pleasanton Dear Gary: I am an avid listener to the many sounds surrounding our rural home in the Altamont hills. One recent morning while listening ...

When scientists played R2-D2’s famous bleeps and whistles for a group of birds, they weren’t expecting a concert — but that’s exactly what they got. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and ...

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A YouTuber, Benn Jordan, has successfully managed to save a PNG file to a starling songbird. To do so, Jordan took a sketch of a bird, converted it into an audio wave, and taught the sterling to ...

POWELL — Flocks of European starlings, so many they look like leaves on trees, are passing through Powell on their yearly southern migration. Their chatter, sounding like a combination of bird and bug ...