Bird vocalization

Ben Mirin, beatboxer, bird watcher

His beats are pretty fly for a bird guy

Music

“My craft is about using beatbox to build a bridge to the natural world,” says Ben Mirin, a world-traveling field ornithologist who mixes his passion for beats with his beatboxing ability to create music.

The World

BirdNote ® How Much Birds Sing

The World

First Rate Bird Calling Contest

The Hidden Sounds of Bird Song

Singing Mice

The World

Bird Songs

Birds sing to communicate to each other. And mostly, it’s the males who do most of the singing. In Massachusetts, a biologist is studying the song of the Chestnut-sided Warbler to find out how and why the male attracts females. Nancy Cohen reports.