An international collaboration between musicians and birdsong scientists has found that in the Australian pied butcherbird songs surveyed, the order of song elements is strongly related to rhythmical ...

An international collaboration between musicians and birdsong scientists has found that in the Australian pied butcherbird songs surveyed, the order of song elements is strongly related to rhythmical ...

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When composer and zoomusicologist Hollis Taylor first encountered the pied butcherbird, she described it as an "epiphany." She was visiting a sheep ranch in Western Australia, when she heard the pied ...

The pied butcherbird in Australia inspired composer Hollis Taylor, who says we can consider its birdsong to be music. Photo from Flickr user patrickkavanagh. Australian composer and violinist Hollis ...

Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world. Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the virtuoso songster the pied butcherbird of Australia. Australian parks, ...

video: The tuneful behavior of some songbirds parallels that of human musicians. That's the conclusion presented in a recent paper published by an international team of researchers, among them David ...

The tuneful behavior of some songbirds parallels that of human musicians, according to new research. The tuneful behavior of some songbirds parallels that of human musicians. That's the conclusion ...