The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

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A pair of UWindsor grad students are using AI software with 100 acoustic box recorders placed across country to identify and ...

Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure. But the conditions that contribute to the immense diversity of the sounds they make ...

Three species of the melodic African warbler bird refuse to get up early and sing their customary daybreak songs when the weather is cold. This new discovery was made recently by a team of soundscape ...

The mountains, lakes, deep woods and rugged coastlines of Maine's Acadia National Park are home to more than 300 species of birds. Volunteers are making recordings to document the avian soundscape, ...

After decades of frustration, machine-learning tools are unlocking a treasure trove of acoustic data for ecologists. A small songbird soars above Ithaca, New York, on a September night. He is one of 4 ...

If you were old enough to buy CDs in the ’90s, you may remember listening stations at superstores that featured music by some of nature’s noisiest creatures: birds. These CDs blended classical music ...

The phenomenon behind this behavior of birds turns out to be considerably more complex than it seems at first glance ...

A group of Indian bird enthusiasts and researchers successfully recorded the bird call of a previously thought-extinct bird species, Bird Guides reported. The Jerdon's Courser, a critically endangered ...

Birds possess keen senses to detect environmental changes before storms arrive. They feel barometric pressure drops and hear ...