Ars Technica

Do birds have language? It depends on how you define it

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 quintessential human capacity for language, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Do Birds Have Language?

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 ...
The Atlantic

Birds Are Stretching the Boundaries of Language

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 ...
SFGate

Birding by ear: How to learn the songs of nature’s symphony with some simple techniques

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chris Lituma, West Virginia University (THE CONVERSATION) Waking up to the dawn chorus ...
Ars Technica

Do birds have language? It depends on how you define it

Scientists find some parallels with human speech in cheeps and trills of birdsong. If zebra finches notice timbral features more acutely than temporal features, I wonder if certain populations of ...
The Conversation

Birding by ear: How to learn the songs of nature’s symphony with some simple techniques

Associate Professor of Wildlife and Fisheries Resources, West Virginia University Waking up to the dawn chorus of birds – one of the natural world’s greatest symphonies – is a joy like no other. It is ...