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- 120 year-old singing bird mechanism https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1568394537835573251 2 comments
- A-BiRD uses Raspberry Pi to identify different species singing at the same time https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-bird-uses-raspberry-pi-to-identify-different-species-singing-at-the-same-time/ 7 comments
- A bird sings the theme tune to Seinfeld... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofy8qknwws&eurl=http://www.holymoly.com/page/randomdetail/0,,12643~1529363,00.html 7 comments reddit.com
- Scientists reveal the songs birds sing in their dreams https://www.newsweek.com/songs-birds-sing-dreaming-asleep-1891312 2 comments upliftingnews
- Hillary IT Specialist Singing Like a Bird to the FBI https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/03/12/hillary-it-specialist-singing-like-a-bird-to-the-fbi/ 28 comments politics
- Study: Mice sing just like birds, but we can’t hear them http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/04/01/mice-sing-just-like-birds-but-we-cant-hear-them/?tid=rssfeed 223 comments science
- Airline bomb suspect singing like a bird -- without any torture. Imagine that. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_airline_terror 124 comments worldnews
- The poor birds are not getting the chance to to learn what they should be singing https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/17/how-an-endangered-australian-songbird-regent-honeyeater-is-forgetting-its-love-songs?cmp=share_androidapp_other 4 comments nottheonion
- Tiffany Trump to Sing "I'm Like a Bird" at Pres. Donald Trump's Inauguration http://www.smobserved.com/story/2017/01/11/politics/tiffany-trump-to-sing-im-like-a-bird-at-pres-donald-trumps-inauguration/2466.html 178 comments politics
- Ajax fans singing Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds"... Very appropriate... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJzHvRYOVHg 7 comments soccer
- Scientists Discover That Drunk Birds Sing Like Drunks http://www.npr.org/2014/12/28/373649024/scientists-discover-that-drunk-birds-sing-like-drunks 3 comments science
- Scientists Discover That Drunk Birds Sing Like Drunks http://www.npr.org/2014/12/28/373649024/scientists-discover-that-drunk-birds-sing-like-drunks 27 comments nottheonion
- Fish have been recorded singing a dawn chorus - just like birds http://www.sciencealert.com/fish-have-been-recorded-singing-a-dawn-chorus-just-like-birds?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1 3 comments science
- Female birds sing as often as males, and not just to attract a mate, a new Australian study suggests. http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2015/10/why-do-female-birds-sing-(1) 4 comments science
- [Simon Bird] Sunderland fans have turned on boss Michael Beale singing: "You're getting sacked in the morning" https://twitter.com/SimonBird_/status/1748458326780715056 132 comments soccer
- Glover Teixeira ‘would rather watch birds sing’ than argue over Corey Anderson’s No. 1 claim: ‘He got knocked out by the man I took the belt from’ https://www.mmafighting.com/2022/5/3/23043129/glover-teixeira-corey-anderson-knocked-out-ufc-bellator-belt-mma 249 comments mma
- Man arrested at JFK airport after 35 birds intended for singing contests found in his clothing https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-jfk-airport-smuggle-35-birds-singing-contests/ 14 comments nottheonion
- Man arrested at airport after 35 birds intended for singing contests found in his clothing, officials say https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/27/us/birds-border-protection-smuggle-trnd/index.html 7 comments nottheonion
- Man arrested at airport after 35 birds intended for singing contests found in his clothing, officials say https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/27/us/birds-border-protection-smuggle-trnd/index.html 71 comments nottheonion
- Rare birds in Australia have forgotten how to sing their own song. Without elder instructors of their own kind, young regent honeyeaters are adapting the songs of other species. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00682-z 8 comments science
- I hope Jeffrey Epstein sings like a bird. And if some Democrats go down, so be it https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/09/jeffrey-epstein-sings-like-a-bird-and-if-some-democrats-go-down-so-be-it 5995 comments politics
- Ajax fans singing Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds" after the game last night https://streamable.com/fojra 3 comments soccer
- Scientists have suggested that fish sing dawn choruses in the ocean just as birds do on land http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/fish-sing-dawn-chorus-audio-recording-australia-a7322346.html 4 comments science
- Fish recorded singing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds https://www.newscientist.com/article/2106331-fish-recorded-singing-dawn-chorus-on-reefs-just-like-birds/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=echobox&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=autofeed&cmpid=soc%7Cnsns%7C2016-echobox#link_time=1474452777 4 comments science
- To flirt in cities, birds adjust their pitch. Urban are now singing differently from their country cousins. http://www.npr.org/2011/12/24/144102328/to-flirt-in-cities-birds-adjust-their-pitch 100 comments science
- The reddit alien in a tuxedo shirt, front stage, at a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert while they sing "Free Bird" http://www.reddit.com/r/favors/comments/bp3dk/offer_i_will_draw_anything/c0nv1s8?context=1 7 comments reddit.com
- Caged birds may still sing, but being in captivity for just a few weeks can reduce the volume of the hippocampus by as much as 23 percent. http://www.physorg.com/news174565035.html 4 comments science
- Researchers can predict what syllables a bird will sing—and when it will sing them—by reading electrical signals in its brain. Having the ability to predict a bird’s vocal behavior from its brain activity is an early step toward building vocal prostheses for humans who have lost the ability to speak https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/decoding-birds-brain-signals-into-syllables-of-song 2 comments science
- Numbers of critically endangered regent honeyeaters have fallen so low in the wild that experts say some young birds are failing to learn how to sing their own song. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56417544 87 comments science
- NrdRage's Friday DD: Spring is in the air - the birds are singing, the flowers are BLOOMing, and there's money to be made off Texas freezing and fixing our EOL power infrastructure ($BE) https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/m3mhkm/nrdrages_friday_dd_spring_is_in_the_air_the_birds/ 73 comments wallstreetbets
- Birds aren't all singing the same song. While some birds are born knowing how to sing innately, many need to be taught how to sing by adults - just like humans. Those birds can develop regional dialects. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/13/asia/bird-dialects-song-intl-hnk/index.html 7 comments nature
- The loudest bird calls on Earth are made by the Amazon’s white bellbird, new recordings reveal. At 125 decibels, they’re louder than a chainsaw three feet away. Scientists also say the males sing right into females’ faces at close range, perhaps damaging the hearing of their potential mates. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/10/21/scientists-in-the-amazon-have-recorded-the-worlds-loudest-bird-it-hits-a-painful-125-decibels/ 17 comments science
- The loudest bird calls on Earth come from the Amazon’s white bellbird, new recordings reveal. They’re louder than a chainsaw three feet away. Scientists also say the males sing right into females’ faces at close range, perhaps damaging their mates’ hearing. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/10/21/scientists-in-the-amazon-have-recorded-the-worlds-loudest-bird-it-hits-a-painful-125-decibels/ 3 comments science
- 2019 r/baseball Power Rankings -- Week 22: Shuffle Among Highest Ranks as Braves Enter Top 5, Faded Flair Disease Creeps Up, Mixed Week for the Birds: Cardinals Sing, Blue Jays Get Clipped, Orioles Do Nothing in Particular, Astros and Yankees Continue Leap-Frog Competition https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/cvu8th/2019_rbaseball_power_rankings_week_22_shuffle/ 55 comments baseball
- Baldissoni, Roma: "ADL hangs out with the wrong birds. Maybe he should hang out with nightingales that usually sings nice songs instead of talking nonsense" https://www.gazzetta.it/calcio/serie-a/roma/17-08-2018/roma-baldissoni-de-laurentiis-pallotta-liverpool-suoi-uccellini-cinguettano-sciocchezze-290235071119.shtml 31 comments soccer
- Adult songbirds modify their vocalizations when singing to juveniles in the same way that humans alter their speech when talking to babies. The resulting brain activity in young birds could shed light on speech learning and some developmental disorders in humans according to a study on zebra finches https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160531165239.htm 4 comments science
- Old Converse "Weapon" Commercial featuring Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Mark Aguirre and Isiah Thomas singing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCbpF5GIBcA 7 comments nba
- Scientists have found that the male song sparrows that sang the most songs learned to solve food-finding puzzles more slowly than the birds singing fewer songs; thus, a larger song repertoire links to cognitive deficits in other mental processes http://today.duke.edu/2013/05/birdbraintrades 29 comments science
- Youtube claims man's homemade nature video violated a company's copyright because of birds singing in the background; the company, Rumblefish, claims to own his video's exclusive intellectual property rights to singing birds https://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=55df85c8372461a6&hl=en 1275 comments technology
- Physicists have developed a model that can map out and predict the notes birds sing in sequence. If the scientists can use the same technique to map and predict chatter in other social animals, they could find important clues about the neural origins of complex language http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/song-bird-language/ 10 comments science