Watching birds in your backyard during the spring is a fun pastime. If you can't see them, you can still identify them if you ...

Birding by ear can be difficult, which is why some enthusiasts come up with tricks for remembering those tweets. Bird call mnemonics (pronounced nuh-ma-niks) are phrases or words assigned to a bird's ...

Familiar voices trigger stronger brain activity in zebra finches, speeding up how quickly they respond to calls.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Samuel Henderson, a 10 year-old who can imitate a number of bird calls with surprising accuracy. In some of the, well, less stressful corners of social media, you can ...

If you’ve ever been out in the New Zealand wilderness, you might have heard a distinctive, low-frequency tone. It sounds less like an animal than the kick on an electronic drum machine. A look through ...