A British garden bird has been found to be so clever it can solve problems and even mimic human voices, according to a professor's discovery. Several common species have demonstrated thinking ...

A symphony of synapses fires every time a songbird sings. For Erich Jarvis, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University, the neural pathways he finds particularly interesting inside a bird’s brain are ...

Researchers conducted a global study of the factors that influence bird sounds, using more than 100,000 audio recordings from around the world. Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a ...

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.

Police officers in the United Kingdom thought that something was wrong with their cars when they kept hearing a strange noise that sounded convincingly similar to their sirens, video shows. Cops from ...