International bird-sounds expert Allison Kondler will be the special guest at the inaugural Birding Festival of the South in ...

Birds don't just sing for beauty, their voices carry messages, warnings, and even regional dialects that reveal a hidden world of communication. Bird sounds offer insight into how intelligent and ...

In northern Argentina, one bird courts romance by snapping its wrists together, producing a sound scientists have puzzled ...

Some birds sing to attract a mate. Others dance or display colorful feathers. But in the moonlit forests and shrublands of ...

We become desensitized to the common sounds around us—car alarms, chattering squirrels, the mechanical functions of modern living kicking on and off throughout the day. If you had asked me a week ago ...

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.

It’s much easier to identify bird songs once you understand a few tricks. The most important thing to know is that most of ...