You can barely hear the birds chirping in this YouTube video of a man picking some fresh ingredients for a wild salad, and yet that very sound has been identified as copyrighted material, belonging to ...

Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure. But the ...

Forget the typical spa soundtracks, like rainstorms and crashing waves. The next time you want to relax, head to Spotify, look up key phrases like “birds in the forest,” and enjoy a cacophony of ...

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 album of endangered bird calls reached No. 3 in Australia's top 50 albums chart last month. Called Songs of Disappearance, it consists of sounds from 53 of the country's endangered bird species, ...

Jerusalem Crawley grew up in Detroit, where he didn’t have much contact with nature. “I was a typical city kid and birds were ...

David Attenborough watches as the superb lyrebird of southeastern Australia lures females by copying the sounds around him – including those of chainsaws and camera shutters! What bird has the most ...

You've seen birds that can copy human speech, but the Menura novaehollandiae, better known as the superb kyrebird, takes this a step further. As a bird with perhaps the most advanced sound-mimicking ...