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 one of the sounds that made the Macauley Library's list of best audio recordings of 2025. The library is an online collection featuring more than 2 million recordings of birds and other animals.

“It can imitate so many other birds,” said Amy Gardner, adding it’s been known to fool even a wizard like Merlin. Gardner owns the Wren & Sparrow store in downtown Fredericksburg and leads a ...

A small bird is one of the first to respond to these early morning rays. The house wren needs no caffeine to spring awake and explode in a frenzy of movement and sound. His loud song shatters the ...

The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.” ...

The UK has been declared an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) - and bird "gatherings" have been banned in England and Wales in response to rising cases of bird flu. Strains of the virus have ...