Arizona's state bird fends for itself against predators in the desert, making its home in prickly plants. Here's what to know and how to spot it.

My next guest analyzed 100,000 bird sounds from all over the world to try to peck out some ... ZUZANA BURIVALOVA: So for a small one with a small beak, you might know, for example, the winter wren.

Spectrograms help birders of all levels learn songs and calls by stimulating the visual part of the brain while listening to the bird sounds ... a sparrow and a wren. “I often say birding ...

(SOUNDBITE OF BIRD CHIRPING) DETROW ... So this is not what an adult banded wren sounds like at all. We have another recording, and perhaps we can listen to the adult example as well just as ...

Male wrens cycle through a repertoire of various phrasing. The bird has been called “mocking wren” because it sometimes sounds like a catbird, kingfisher or certain other birds. They are year ...

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.

football-shaped nests to shield them from snakes and other birds, the Arizona State Parks & Trails website states. A July 28, 1985, article in The Republic described the sound of the cactus wren ...