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 ...
These feathered friends have big vocabularies!
Birds are the master vocalists of the animal kingdom. They can make a remarkable variety of sounds. But why is a barred owl more of a baritone, while a cedar waxwing is a soprano? And what influences ...
Parrots, like humans, can use their tongues to manipulate sound, according to an international team of scientists. While tongue movement is critical to human speech, scientists had found it hard to ...
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.
A new study reports that parrots who are strangers to each other “test the waters” by forming new relationships through a series of increasingly friendly interactions that are much like developing ...