Researchers have found that a tropical species of hummingbird called a black jacobin makes vocal sounds with an unusually high-frequency pitch that falls outside birds' normal hearing range. It's not ...

Nocturnal bird assemblages are poorly known in most tropical locations, and information about their presence and behavior is often limited to the results of dawn or dusk surveys. We investigated the ...

Animal sounds are a very good indicator of biodiversity in tropical reforestation areas. Researchers demonstrate this by using sound recordings and AI models. Tropical forests are among the most ...

The Audubon Zoo is set to unveil on Friday a walk-through exhibit with more than 70 rare birds from tropical and semitropical regions around the world. In Wings of the World, an immersive experience ...

On today’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast we speak with Laurel Symes, a biologist who is using bioacoustics to study tropical katydids in Central America. Laurel Symes is assistant director of the ...

Fall migration is peaking now. Billions of birds fill the skies. Some migrate to the southern coast; some race on to Central America; others venture into the heart of South America. Some Arctic ...

Birds threatened by a predator often call out to encourage other birds to make noise and fly about, repelling the attacker as part of a “mobbing flock”. Now, researchers have found that male lyrebirds ...