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 sounds of nature can be incredibly soothing — just think of those zen meditation tracks filled with chirping birds amid ...

The planet’s birds make a lot of different sounds communicating a wide variety of messages. The petite Black-capped chickadee emits a high noise that tells predators to scram. Hungry Pileated ...

While the average Hackaday reader might not be able to take part in data gathering in an isolated wilderness somewhere, we are all surrounded by bird life. Using an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense and ...

"In the tropics and all over the world, larger birds tend to be hunted for meat," he says as an example. "Larger birds [tend] to call at a low frequency, and if we don't find any sound in the ...

Bird Mimicry Bird that mimic other birds are the cover artists of the bird world, borrowing sounds and tunes from other birds to use as their own. Some mimicry bird species—mockingbirds, thrashers and ...

The analyzed recordings represented 77% of known bird species. The research also contributed to the broader understanding of soundscapes — all of the sounds heard in any particular landscape.