Tompkins County in New York State is arguably the best birded county in North America. Cornell University, with its Cornell Lab of Ornithology located there in Ithaca, has produced numerous ...

Don't let its size fool you — the Eurasian Wren has one of the loudest and most vibrant songs in the forest. Listen to its sharp trills echo through the trees in this peaceful spring recording.

Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure.

For more than a year now, a group of environmental organizations have been dropping biodegradable containers of mosquitoes ...

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.

Most studies concentrated on the sounds of the forest, bird songs, ocean waves, and waterfalls. An interesting study was done in 2021 (Buxton, R.T. et al.).

Forget the typical spa soundtracks, like rainstorms and crashing waves. The next time you want to relax, head to Spotify, look up key phrases like “birds in the forest,” and enjoy a cacophony ...

Using bioacoustics, South American scientists are eavesdropping on a forest in hopes of hearing the song of the long-missing purple-winged ground dove.

Researchers use boomboxes in the forest to study how smaller birds avoid predators. Using boomboxes to amplify predator bird sounds in the wild, University of Florida researchers have found that ...

Acoustic monitoring and AI tools were used to track biodiversity recovery in plots of tropical Chocó forest in northwestern Ecuador. The study found that species returned to regenerating forests ...

Today, only 17 remain, and some, like the kiwikiu, have fewer than 200 individual birds. Their plight is mainly due to a sound out of place in a Hawaiian forest — the buzz of a mosquito.