Animals do all sorts of things to attract each other as potential mates. Many birds, for example, produce feathers with ...

Familiar voices trigger stronger brain activity in zebra finches, speeding up how quickly they respond to calls.

According to new research, jackdaw (two species of bird in the genus Coloeus) chicks listen to their elders—but there’s also ...

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 ...

March is a great time of year for people across the United States. The snow begins to melt, temperatures rise, and many birds ...

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.

It might sound like all chirps to you, but birds convey different messages, even across species. Language has long been considered the exclusive provenance of humans. But in the animal kingdom, birds, ...