Merlin has been trained to identify the songs of more than 1,300 bird species around the world ...

The Bay Area is a permanent or temporary home for 250 different species of resident and migratory birds. Noise can affect ...

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A rare species prized by birders in Southern Arizona has been unceremoniously stripped of its elegance, and at least one local expert isn’t happy about the change. A leading panel of taxonomists ...

You’d be forgiven if you can’t hum the 18th-century Cumbrian folk song “Do Ye Ken John Peel.” But in 1942, a version of that ...

Even so, nature resonates with distinct sounds during the cold season. Winter, in fact, is a good time to keep your ears ...

Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

Surprisingly the animal with the best hearing is one that has no obvious ears! The greater wax moth, which lays its eggs in ...