Tompkins County in New York State is arguably the best birded county in North America. Cornell University, with its Cornell Lab of Ornithology located there in Ithaca, has produced numerous ...

Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure.

A new AI tool that picks out bird and amphibian sounds in audio recordings could improve how ecologists monitor and study ...

Blind birders in tune with bird sounds, call themselves ‘bird brains’ “The world is designed for sighted people, but nature is a place where it’s okay to be blind,” said Donna Posont ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Samuel Henderson, a 10 year-old who can imitate a number of bird calls with surprising accuracy.

For the first time, scientists described a hummingbird chick potentially mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to avoid getting eaten.

When we think of speech, we usually think of humans. But there’s a rare group of birds that have evolved to do something truly remarkable– mimic our words. Some of them can go beyond just repeating ...

Crow River Media Bird sounds fill a cool autumn’s night Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) ...

These 12,000-Year-Old Flutes Mimic the Sound of Prehistoric Birds The remnants of seven small bird bone instruments were discovered in northern Israel ...

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

During summer breaks at the University of Michigan at Dearborn, she started passing along what she’d learned about birds and plants through touch, sound and smell to children at Camp Tuhsmeheta.