The Bay Area is a permanent or temporary home for 250 different species of resident and migratory birds. Noise can affect ...

Meet a katydid that sounds like a bird and is as big as one too! It's even able to modulate its call to avoid attracting bats ...

In the forests of the Sierra Nevada, the black-backed woodpecker is without parallel. The bird appears almost born of fire, ...

Birds sing loudly in the morning because dawn cues their bodies to start communicating after a silent night. New research shows birds wake up ready to sing, and they’ll even seek light to start their ...

Researchers suspect that dark-eyed juncos living in Los Angeles adapted based on the availability of food scraps tossed by ...

A rare blue parrot that was among the last wild-born members of its species and was believed to have inspired the movie Rio has died outside São Paulo, Brazil. The bird was a Spix's macaw named ...

Discover the fascinating world of cow vocalizations and what their iconic “moos” reveal about communication, social bonds, ...

Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.