About the book: Bird songs and calls are at least as important as visual field marks in identifying birds. Yet short of memorizing each bird’s repertoire, it’s difficult to sort through them all. Now, ...

The sound goes off every morning with a sharp, staccato beep-beep-beep. Our neighbor, Yoka Meyer, thought it was our alarm clock going off. No, it’s a male tufted titmouse greeting the break of day ...

FOR SOME city-dwellers there was at least one pleasing consequence of lockdown: the sharp drop in noise pollution meant that the chirps and trills of wood pigeons, sparrows, owls and finches could be ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

Birds, although they have larynges, use a different organ to sing. Called a syrinx, it's a uniquely avian feature. Now, a team that brings together physics, biology, computation and engineering finds ...

On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we take a break from our usual science reporting to look at some of the ways nature inspires people to create art — and how they in turn use that art to ...

Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. When people think of ...

The song of the Savi's Warbler sounds like a strange insect buzzing. These birds live near European lakes, ponds, and rivers, just above the water's surface. During nesting season, males perch on ...