Birds sing the most about an hour before dawn, when the air is at its stillest. Theoretically, this enables sounds to travel ...

All air-breathing vertebrates have a larynx—a structure of muscles and folds that protects the trachea and, in many animals, vibrates and modulates to produce a stunning array of sounds. But birds, ...

When a parrot begins using your words, your laugh or even your cough, it is not randomly selecting noises. It is learning the ...

Unexpected copycats: Amazon parrot Pepper learned to growl from her dog housemate, showing how parrots adapt sounds from their environment into their own communication. Why they mimic: Parrots and ...

One can be surrounded by diverse flocks of birds, understand their patterns, and hear a chorus or distinct voices but never ...

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.