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.

A new study investigates the impact of wildfire smoke on wildlife. It's one of the first studies ever on how wildfires potentially impact birds. It measured activity based on bird sounds. The study ...

A baby's babbling may sound like nonsense, but it's actually an extended act of trial-and-error learning. As babies produce ...

From familiar garden visitors to countryside characters you’ll hear long before you see, here are eight of the noisiest birds in the UK.

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 ...

I’m not a bird watcher, but I’ve become a bird listener ever since downloading a bionic ear app to my phone. It lets me enter a different world, one where I’m surrounded not just by chirping but by ...

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 ...

The mountains, lakes, deep woods and rugged coastlines of Maine's Acadia National Park are home to more than 300 species of birds. Volunteers are making recordings to document the avian soundscape, ...

These feathered friends have big vocabularies!