I’m going to start by giving you five words to remember: stale, bring, instant, hanger, move. Memorize them and keep reading. Have you ever blanked on the words to a song in the middle of a ...

To learn a song, young white-crowned sparrows don’t need to hear the entire tune straight through. Hearing it in two-phrase bits will do. If the order of phrases in a pair is reversed—BA and DC ...

My husband is a songwriter whose song “Sparrow” starts out like this: Though walls are separating / My body from the rain, I hear a lonesome sparrow / Perched on the weathervane. And while the sun is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A western meadowlark sings its mating song Danita Delimont/Gallo Images Roots RF collection via Getty Images Waking up to the dawn ...