In our quest to find what makes humans unique, we often compare ourselves with our closest relatives: the great apes. But when it comes to understanding the quintessentially human capacity for ...

Some songbirds learn to sing by listening to other birds. Some other animals can learn to copy sounds. But what does that tell us about human speech? Sonja Vernes from the Max Planck Institute for ...

People ask me a lot of questions about birds. So let’s clear up some things. • “When do the hummingbirds get here?” They are always here. In the Bay Area, Anna’s hummingbirds are common all year round ...

It has never been easier to become familiar with the birds around us. We have better tools for doing so than any expert naturalist of the past. Choose a few of the most valuable ones and you will be ...