“Our birds in this movie are a character who’s attenuated to sound in a very particular manner,” Field tells me from Mexico, where he’s on holiday. He notes that Lydia Tár suffers from ...

At least four additional types of birds recognize sounds specific to their species while still in their eggs, the researchers report in the Oct. 25 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

A talented magpie has been filmed making a range of different sounds, mimicking other birds and even recreating the noises made by a Star Wars character. The bird, named Mickey, was spotted in ...

Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure. But the conditions that contribute to the immense diversity of the sounds they ...

The planet’s birds make a lot of different sounds communicating a wide variety of messages. The petite Black-capped chickadee emits a high noise that tells predators to scram. Hungry Pileated ...

Bird species living at the same latitudes make similar sounds. Observing this pattern at a global scale is an important piece of the puzzle in the evolutionary story of bird sounds.