Those persons enjoy the most happiness, if possessed of a benevolent heart and favored by ordinary circumstances of fortune, who have acquired by habit and education the power of deriving pleasure ...

poets and musicians, from Chaucer to Wordsworth, from Handel to Respighi. Birdsong can be a natural phenomenon of intense beauty. But our enjoyment is incidental to the main purpose, which is one bird ...

The breezy pop song is nominated for three Grammys including record and song of the year. By Mesfin Fekadu Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” has flown to the top of Spotify’s list of biggest songs ...

WASHINGTON — Male songbirds usually learn their tunes from adult mentors. But when aspiring crooners lack proper role models, they hit all the wrong notes — and have less success attracting mates. For ...

The sounds of Kauai’s forests are changing. Thirty years ago, David Kuhn could hear a dawn chorus and identify the many different birds that lived on the Hawaiian island. But more recently, Kuhn, a ...

Bilocation—being in two places at the same time—might be the stuff of science fiction. But a new recording by Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital has the feel of transporting us here and there all at once.

Birds understand many sounds around them, from mates to alarms, and this hidden skill may hint at how human language first ...