I was recently creeping through a clearing of downed trees in a wooded Brooklyn park with my iPhone in hand. Birds were singing everywhere, but through the din, I was recording a peculiar song: It was ...

The BirdNET app, a free machine-learning powered tool that can identify over 3,000 birds by sound alone, generates reliable scientific data and makes it easier for people to contribute citizen-science ...

The BirdNET app, a free machine-learning powered tool that can identify over 3,000 birds by sound alone, generates reliable scientific data and makes it easier for people to contribute citizen-science ...

Spring is here, and the air is full of birdsong. The Merlin Bird ID app tells you what type of birds you’re hearing … plus it’s quick, easy and free. With this software from the Cornell Lab of ...

There have been apps around for a long time that listen to a snippet of a song playing on the radio and tell you who sings it and what the song is called. Something similar has now debuted called the ...

Each spring I wake to the sound of a bird purring in my neighbor’s trees. Now, I know birds don’t purr, but that’s the best word I could come up with to describe the sound. It wasn’t chirping. It didn ...

In between snowstorms lately, we’ve been able to enjoy the sounds of spring as our feathered friends wing north again for summer. Everyone knows the sound of a Canada goose honking and probably a ...

I don t know exactly how I knew, but I thought, falcon! I looked up and darn if there wasn t one perched high on an alcove of the Griest Building. I would never had seen the rare sight without my ears ...

Birds understand many sounds around them, from mates to alarms, and this hidden skill may hint at how human language first ...