One can be surrounded by diverse flocks of birds, understand their patterns, and hear a chorus or distinct voices but never ...

As is often the case, I heard more birds than I saw during my Monday morning hike on the two-mile Audubon Loop trail at Seven ...

Birds of all kinds are renowned for their calls, songs, and relentless chirps. Some birds use their calls to communicate with one another, while others use their calls to attract mates. One such ...

To a woodpecker’s brain, drumming against a tree is a lot like birdsong. The findings reveal substantial similarities in the brain circuitry behind hearing and executing these two major acoustic ...

Is that the tweet of a titmouse? Or the chirp of a chickadee? After you download the Merlin Bird ID app, you can use your smartphone to identify sounds and match them to the birds in trees nearby and ...

As spring arrives, use these apps and other tools to identify birds, trees and plants in your backyard and on local trails.

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study evaluated soundscape saturation in a tropical forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, before, during and after selective logging ...

Spring migration is peaking as birds race from their southern wintering grounds to their breeding grounds in the north. This ...