New Atlas

Birds sing in their sleep – and now we can decipher their dreams

Researchers have tracked muscle contractions in a bird's vocal tract, and reconstructed the song it was silently singing in its sleep. The resulting audio is a very specific call, allowing the team to ...
Newsweek

Scientists Reveal the Songs Birds Sing in Their Dreams

The songs a bird sings while dreaming have been revealed for the first time. Researchers at the University of Buenos Aires created a way to track the vocal muscle activity of birds as they sleep, and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Translate Sleeping Birds’ Silent Songs Into Sound—and They May Have Recorded a Nightmare

Scientists brought to life the silent, sleeping songs of two great kiskadees. Andrej Chudý via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED While birds are fast asleep, their brains remain active, firing off ...
Inverse

The Just Plain Odd Ways Birds Sleep — And What It Means for Us All

Some animals can sleep with just half their brain at a time. Understanding this phenomenon can help us learn more about human ...

Birds sleep with one eye open and here’s the reason

Birds exhibit unihemispheric sleep, a fascinating compromise between rest and survival. One half of their brain remains alert ...
The New York Times

Do Birds Dream?

What new research on the avian brain and REM sleep in birds might reveal about our own dream lives. By Maria Popova I once dreamed a kiss that hadn’t yet happened. I dreamed the angle at which our ...