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If you start listening to birds, you’ll realize that they have a species-specific sets of calls. Would you consider these songs a form of culture? Maybe, maybe not—but bird calls are passed down ...

The song of the swamp sparrow—a grey-breasted bird found in wetlands throughout much of North America—is a simple melodious trill, repeated over and over again. "It's kind of like a harmonious police ...

Scientists have long thought that a bird's vocal performance is a static characteristic-set once a song is learned. Yet, biologists now explain that songbirds can modulate vocal performance, when it ...

image: American swamp sparrows may have sung the same songs for more than 1,000 years and passed them on through generations by learning, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London, ...

Few singers reach their sunset years with the same voice they had in younger days. Singing sparrows are no different. Duke University-led research reveals that elderly swamp sparrows don't sound quite ...

The song of the swamp sparrow -- a grey-breasted bird found in wetlands throughout much of North America -- is a simple melodious trill. But according to a new study swamp sparrows are capable of ...

For several reasons, swamp sparrows didn’t fit into the first two parts of this series, and European house sparrows really don’t belong on this continent, even though they have been here since the ...

, the event features up-and-coming singer-songwriters from around the region as well as the rest of the U.S. in an intimate setting. Walter Parks played lead guitar for Woodstock legend Richie Havens ...

Ever done the Swamp Stomp? And nah, dude, it ain’t a muddy-ass dance. We’re talkin’ about the totally homegrown 2,000 person-strong music festival that “started as a killer backyard barbecue with a ...