Source: fir0002, via Wikimedia Commons. Traditionally, birdsong has been viewed as a male trait, and this bias has dominated research on the behavior. “For a long time, scientists thought that female ...

When North American ornithologists hear a bird singing, they're likely to assume it's a male. But in many species, the females sing too--and a new commentary in The Auk: Ornithological Advances argues ...

Many people assume that male songbirds are the ones doing the crooning. But more than 660 species of songbirds are known in which the females sing as well. And there are still 3,500 species of ...