A pair of UWindsor grad students are using AI software with 100 acoustic box recorders placed across country to identify and ...

If you were old enough to buy CDs in the ’90s, you may remember listening stations at superstores that featured music by some of nature’s noisiest creatures: birds. These CDs blended classical music ...

They just can't wait to burst out in song. 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, ...

We become desensitized to the common sounds around us—car alarms, chattering squirrels, the mechanical functions of modern living kicking on and off throughout the day. If you had asked me a week ago ...

Researchers conducted a global study of the factors that influence bird sounds, using more than 100,000 audio recordings from around the world. Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a ...

I’m not a bird watcher, but I’ve become a bird listener ever since downloading a bionic ear app to my phone. It lets me enter a different world, one where I’m surrounded not just by chirping but by ...

I walked around outside our Two Rivers home early one morning, as I sometimes do. It was mid-May and we — that’s my wife, Julie, and me — were about ready to head to work. The birds had recently ...

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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 make ...