NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Samuel Henderson, a 10 year-old who can imitate a number of bird calls with surprising accuracy.

To help, a team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently used over 100,000 audio recordings from around the world to study some of the factors that influence bird sounds.

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.

The DOA agreement empowers an agency biologist and an assistant to control bird populations through the use pyrotechnics, broadcast recordings of bird distress calls, trapping and removal of ...

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

Listen to calls of the most common migratory birds near you as the weather warms.

Researchers conducted a global study of the factors that influence bird sounds, using more than 100,000 audio recordings from around the world.