This male bird’s wattles of flesh dangling from its beak and its bonkers call are both intended to impress females.
The superb lyrebird has one of the coolest abilites on earth: vocal mimicry. Read here about what this bird mimics, and why.
Previous apps for identifying animal calls regularly hit practical limits: Without a stable internet connection, real-time ...
A new analysis reveals that songbirds across the world mix and match the same whistles, trills, and other acoustic motifs to create their diverse tunes.
NBC News has obtained new audio of a call made to a private towing company by friends of Nolan Wells, the 18-year-old who was found dead two days after a July 4 trip to Horn Island, Mississippi, where ...
A composer will lead a public program in Oshkosh exploring conservation through music inspired by bird calls. The event, hosted by Winnebago Audubon, will feature multi-instrumentalist Micky Torpedo ...
It started with half of a sky-blue American robin’s egg. I imagined Mother Nature smiling down on me as she placed the cracked piece of manna a few feet from my front door earlier this spring. My ...
Poet Robert Frost once eloquently penned a poem about the ovenbird: “There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says ...
The KUOW Book Club is reading "The Bird with Flaming Red Feet: Seasons with an Uncommonly Common Seabird" by Maria Mudd Ruth in June 2026. The KUOW Book Club is reading Maria Mudd Ruth's " The Bird ...
Twelve-year-old Sam Henderson had kept a relatively low profile until he performed a series of bird calls at a middle school assembly two years ago. His peers were stunned and delighted, and video of ...