Archive of: Bird Song

  • Lost voices: uncovering female birdsong

    11 February 2025

    Lost voices: uncovering female birdsong

    Historically, it was thought that only male songbirds sang. However, research conducted in the last ten years has proved this theory wrong.

     
  • Nightingale - Bird Song

    15 June 2020

    Nightingale - Bird Song

    The glorious Nightingale has a reputation for song like no other. There are probably very few species with a more prodigious claim to world’s greatest songster

     
  • Goldfinch - Bird Song

    05 June 2020

    Goldfinch - Bird Song

    The magnificent Goldfinch is a delicate, richly-coloured bird and one of our most enchanting garden inhabitants

     
  • Greenfinch - Bird Song

    25 May 2020

    Greenfinch - Bird Song

    The Greenfinch is an exceedingly attractive and familiar bird species, but sadly it’s in serious decline

     
  • Song Thrush - Bird Song

    14 May 2020

    Song Thrush - Bird Song

    The Song Thrush is the most familiar member of its family to have ‘Thrush’ in the name. They’re one of just a few birds comprehensively defined by their song

     
  • Blackcap - Bird Song

    07 May 2020

    Blackcap - Bird Song

    The Blackcap is a distinctive member of the ‘Old World’ warblers and is regarded as one of the finest songsters within its extended family

     
  • Deciphering the dawn chorus

    30 April 2020

    Deciphering the dawn chorus

    Wildlife expert Nick Acheson introduces some of our feathered superstars to listen out for this spring.​

     
  • Dunnock - Bird Song

    29 April 2020

    Dunnock - Bird Song

    The Dunnock is an overwhelmingly inconspicuous bird that in fact very much belies its meek and modest nature

     
  • Blackbird - Bird Song

    22 April 2020

    Blackbird - Bird Song

    The Blackbird is perhaps more familiar to us than any other bird, surely the species we associate most closely with our gardens

     
  • Wren - Bird Song

    16 April 2020

    Wren - Bird Song

    The Wren is a tiny little bird, but it packs a voice with huge punch

     
  • Robin - Bird Song

    07 April 2020

    Robin - Bird Song

    We may love the Robin, but there’s something about them that belies their general demeanour - they’re viciously territorial.

     
  • Chaffinch - Bird Song

    31 March 2020

    Chaffinch - Bird Song

    The Chaffinch, our most familiar British Finch. Perhaps surprisingly it’s the UK’s third commonest breeding bird after Wren and Robin

     
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