Until recently, researchers thought that most of the birds that actually make noise were males. But in 2016, Karan Odom went through samples of songs from more than 1,000 species from around the world and found that 64% had females that sing . Odom is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Leiden University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. And she has launched a new citizen science initiative to study female bird songs. It’s called the Female Bird Song Project . We asked her why people often