“In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,” the saying goes. The same may be said of birds. That’s because spring is when most birds turn to family obligations—they mate, ...

In a study conducted at the University of Helsinki, AI was trained to classify bird sounds with increasing accuracy. The ...

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.

The spring birds are on their way back. Warblers, osprey, hummingbirds and more are all making their annual trip back North as the annual spring migration begins. And, you can track them via radar.

Most people think of spring as the season for listening to birds — with good reason. Spring is when the most birds are singing, performing those nesting season declarations of presence and prowess ...

We set off at first light, gliding with the current down the Missisquoi River and almost at once we're in a different world. Road sounds and other markers of modern life drop away, replaced by bird ...

Over the course of any given year, more than 200 bird species live just west of Manhattan's spires in the Hackensack Meadowlands. Scientists have known that for a while, with the Meadowlands serving ...

KOOCHICHING COUNTY, Minn. — When it comes to spending time outdoors, it’s pretty tough to beat sitting by a campfire on a nice spring evening when the natural world is coming back to life after a long ...

In a sure sign of the changing seasons, migratory birds are slowly making their way back north right now. From tiny songbirds to enormous soaring cranes and eagles, spring’s earliest arrivers are ...

DETROW: That chirping you're hearing right now is the western meadowlark. It's one of the sounds that made the Macauley Library's list of best audio recordings of 2025. The library is an online ...