Birds and music are beautifully intertwined. Birds are renowned for their melodic songs and stunning vocalizations. It makes you wonder if they can understand the more complex music than can be ...

If you’ve ever heard a bird sing and wondered how you could possibly figure out what type of bird it could be without laboriously searching through recordings, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology now has ...

I was recently creeping through a clearing of downed trees in a wooded Brooklyn park with my iPhone in hand. Birds were singing everywhere, but through the din, I was recording a peculiar song: It was ...

An album consisting of the sounds of endangered Australian birds has made its way to the top of the country's music charts after a heavy push on social media. "Songs of Disappearance" was released Dec ...

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.

An international collective of electronic music DJs and composers is taking beats from the dance club to jungles and forests and back, all to help save nature's greatest singers. A Guide to the ...

FOR SOME city-dwellers there was at least one pleasing consequence of lockdown: the sharp drop in noise pollution meant that the chirps and trills of wood pigeons, sparrows, owls and finches could be ...

All air-breathing vertebrates have a larynx—a structure of muscles and folds that protects the trachea and, in many animals, vibrates and modulates to produce a stunning array of sounds. But birds, ...

Imagine a bird so unique, it doesn’t sing with its beak, it plays a song with its wings. No, this isn’t a fantasy novel or a Disney script. Meet the club-winged manakin, a real bird from the cloud ...

After more than four decades, it still sounds pretty. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Even if you didn't grow up in the '80s, ...