Adirondack birding experts debate which bird call defines summer. Red-eyed vireo, common loon, and hermit thrush compete for ...

Tompkins County in New York State is arguably the best birded county in North America. Cornell University, with its Cornell ...

Our brains can spot real biodiversity using sight and sound alone, according to scientists studying how humans perceive nature.

We recorded interactions between frugivorous birds and plants in the Cerrado and we assessed the role and importance of birds as potential seed dispersers. We analyzed the distribution of recorded ...

People can intuitively sense how biodiverse a forest is just by looking at photos or listening to sounds, and their gut ...

Seaside sparrows at Cooks Beach have their own “dialect.” Rowan University researchers monitor their songs as a way to track salt marsh health.

A study published in People and Nature finds that both sight and sound influence perception of biodiversity, and participants ...

It’s happened to all of us: You’re at a party, or a work event, or talking to your cousin’s new girlfriend at a family gathering. When the conversation turns to hobbies and interests, someone’s eyes ...

Forest fires are one of the main causes of environmental degradation. More than a million species of animals have lost their lives in the 2019–2020 wildfire that spread in the Amazon forest. The model ...

Patuxent Research Refuge’s North Tract in Laurel has cut visiting hours. Could the Trump administration could close it ...

Is that the tweet of a titmouse? Or the chirp of a chickadee? After you download the app Merlin Bird ID, you can use your smartphone to identify sounds and match them to the birds in trees nearby and ...

Nicola Toki is a New Zealand conservationist and Chief Executive of Forest & Bird since 2022. Born in Invercargill, she grew up exploring the South Island, moving often for her father’s work as ...