Birds are extraordinary creatures that possess the ability to sense changes in atmospheric pressure, alerting them to impending storms long before they hit. With their keen senses, they pick up on air ...

This male bird’s wattles of flesh dangling from its beak and its bonkers call are both intended to impress females.

But new research shows that, for centuries, we’ve been really unfair to the dodos. Currently, there are only three completely ...

Generations of Rhode Islanders have descended upon Scarborough Beach in Narragansett each summer for nearly a century. It's our best-known, most popular, and most crowded beach, with over 300,000 ...

Recently, researchers at North Carolina State University studied how different sounds and surroundings affect people's ...

Dodos approached humans without alarm and gathered around distressed members of their own group, enabling hunters to kill ...

A new study suggests the sounds around us have a significant impact on how we feel about physical spaces, with natural sounds ...

It’s the height of summer at Hickory Run State Park’s family campground, where cicadas hum, birds sing, and the heat and ...

Scientists planted a volunteer group in the middle of a college campus and a restored urban forest, then piped competing ...

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 ...

With social media communities and naturalist apps, birding is easier to get into than ever. A psychologist explains why it ...