The musician wren is aptly-named, because these birds use the same intervals in their songs that are heard as consonant in many human cultures. This is a what composer and musicologist and a biologist ...

Deep in the cloud forests of Ecuador, on the slopes of an active volcano, there lives a chubby, unassuming looking bird known as the plain-tailed wren. As the name implies, it does not look ...

The Eurasian wren is a tiny bird with a powerful voice, often heard singing loudly in forests and gardens. Despite its small size, it plays an important role in controlling insects and maintaining ...

It looks far too tiny to produce such a song, a liquid glissando that rings through the woods. The winter wren is a little brown bird with a very big song. It’s a demitasse of a bird, weighing less ...

The Eurasian Wren, a tiny yet powerful songbird, perches on a weathered tree stump, showcasing its characteristic upright tail and round body. Despite its small size, the wren is known for its ...

It was once thought that only male songbirds were capable of song. However, in 64 percent of all songbird species, the females sing. Professor Naomi Langmore first made this discovery by recording a ...

The plain-tailed wren is a small songbird that lives on the slopes of the Andes mountains in Ecuador, and male and female birds sing a spectacular duet together that involves the birds singing ...

Mike Adams is a biologist, educator, researcher and author. To contact him, email [email protected]. Locally large birds like the bald eagle, wild turkey, sandhill crane, common crow and even ...