An unusual bird known to find temporary comfort in the gardens and trees of Houston-area neighborhoods is announcing itself with a distinctive call. The black-bellied whistling duck is typically about ...

The nightjar, a nocturnal bird species, is a master of disguise. Their grey-brown coloring and streaked feathers help them to camouflage with their surroundings, making them difficult to spy. Even so, ...

This would be an outstanding clue in a future Jeopardy episode under the category of Birds: they look like hawks and act like vultures, but they are actually falcons. Answer: What is the crested ...

Have you heard sounds like the rustling of leaves or cracking of branches outside your windows lately? It’s probably not a mythical Fresno Nightcrawler, but wild animals can certainly be making noise ...

It’s spring, and nature is pulling me away from my computer as I write this. The sun is shining, the world is warming up, and the birds are chirping away. And that got me thinking: What if a ...

Birds understand many sounds around them, from mates to alarms, and this hidden skill may hint at how human language first ...

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.

One of the unique aspects of our modern era is the ability to preserve sights and sounds. While an animal’s extinction means its physical presence is gone forever, technology allows us to experience a ...

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 ...