Smithsonian Magazine

Birds Are Beeping and Booping like R2-D2. Their Mimicked Sounds Are Helping Unlock the Secrets of Avian Communication

Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt created the character’s high-pitched, electronic chattering by combining his own voice and ...
Yahoo

Squirrels Seriously Relax When They Hear Birds Chattering — Here's Why

We might be able to learn a thing or two from squirrel instincts. Researchers at Oberlin College — biologist Keith A. Tarvin and two of his students, Marie V. Lilly and Emma C. Lucore — published a ...
insider.si.edu

Bird sounds : how and why birds sing, call, chatter, and screech / Barry Kent MacKay

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Chatter of chipmunks, squirrels and frogs makes it tougher to identify bird sounds

If you are interested in birds, you really have to be interested in birds songs — and really any kind of sounds birds make. Generally the term “bird calls” is used to encompass sounds of any kind, but ...
The New York Times

These Beautiful Birds Form Something Like Lasting Friendships

Superb starlings help care for the offspring of birds they are not related to. “To me, that sounds like friendship,” one scientist said. By Asher Elbein True friends, most people would agree, are ...