An album consisting of the sounds of endangered Australian birds has made its way to the top of the country's music charts after a heavy push on social media. "Songs of Disappearance" was released Dec ...

The barking owl is one of the 53 endangered bird species featured on the album. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons In a surprising twist, an album of bird songs winged its way ahead of Grammy-winning ...

Footage of an Australian bird mimicking the sound of emergency sirens has gone viral in the midst of the raging Australian bushfires, which have now burned millions of acres of Australian land. The ...

Birds understand many sounds around them, from mates to alarms, and this hidden skill may hint at how human language first ...

For most of December, Adele had the top-selling album in Australia, followed by Ed Sheeran, and then there was a collection of absolute bangers that took everyone by surprise. Songs Of Disappearance ...

Volunteers have found new pairs of powerful owls in South Australia's south-east, where the species is rarely seen. The owls' calls were recorded as part of an acoustic monitoring project across the ...

The lovable Star Wars droid is helping to shed light on why some bird species are better at mimicking sounds than others ...

Over a decade ago, behavioral ecologist Diane Colombelli-Négrel was wiring superb fairy wrens’ nests to record the birds’ sounds when she noticed something odd. Mother fairy wrens sang while ...

Language enables us to connect with each other and coordinate to achieve incredible feats. Our ability to communicate abstract concepts is often seen as a defining feature of our species, and one that ...