If you were old enough to buy CDs in the ’90s, you may remember listening stations at superstores that featured music by some of nature’s noisiest creatures: birds. These CDs blended classical music ...

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

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A bird watching app is suddenly popular ...

When people think of extinct animals, they may picture taxidermy, skeletons, 19th-century illustrations or perhaps grainy black-and-white photographs. Until very recently, these were our only ways to ...

Bird sounds at the crack of dawn are not part of everyone’s morning. If you live in a city, there’s a good chance that bird populations have migrated elsewhere, as they struggled to compete with urban ...

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 ...