In northern Argentina, one bird courts romance by snapping its wrists together, producing a sound scientists have puzzled ...

Some birds sing to attract a mate. Others dance or display colorful feathers. But in the moonlit forests and shrublands of ...

Scientists discovered that scissor-tailed nightjars create strange courtship sounds by snapping the bones in their wings ...

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.

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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 ...

Birds that sing at night: Most birds stop singing when the sun goes down, but for some, the concert is just starting. Hearing birds sing at night is an interesting and growing experience. We usually ...

If you struggle to determine whether a bird song belongs to a wren or a crow, the inaugural Birding Festival of the South ...