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 ...

Known for their bright blue eggs, American robins are a familiar sight hopping across lawns in search of worms, fruit, and ...

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 -- researchers argue that a better understanding of these ...

Whoever coined the phrase “the early bird catches the worm” may have been thinking about the American robin. These industrious little songbirds are often the first ones you will hear singing early in ...