Take my word for it: Inside each of us is one venerable gene that causes most of us to go plumb gaga over spring. It's double dominant in me. The thing that sets my synapses sparking isn't the clean, ...

The best part of spring is the dawn chorus, the early morning torrent of birdsong that occurs during the nesting season. This is the clearest sign of the most dramatic natural event encountered by ...

Dawn is beckoned by choruses of birds all around the world, but we still don't understand why our avian neighbours insist on such a morning ruckus. A new study, yet to be peer reviewed, explores this ...

Researchers have some new evidence about what makes birds make so much noise early in the morning, and it's not for some of the reasons they previously thought. For decades, a dominant theory about ...

The daylight hours are increasing and you may be noticing a rising crescendo of bird song in your neighborhood. The dawn chorus is the world’s oldest wake-up call and a celebration of the beauty of ...

Would you like to find a fresh and novel experience within the narrow confines of your home and neighborhood? Then get up early on a spring day and listen to the birds’ dawn chorus. Place yourself in ...

As I come over the hill, I hear the wood thrush singing his evening lay. This is the only bird whose note affects me like music, affects the flow and tenor of my thoughts, my fancy and imagination. It ...

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 ...