Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure.

With the use of autonomous recording units, or ARUs, scientists can listen to bird frequencies to understand their behaviors.

Tompkins County in New York State is arguably the best birded county in North America. Cornell University, with its Cornell Lab of Ornithology located there in Ithaca, has produced numerous ...

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.

A new AI tool that picks out bird and amphibian sounds in audio recordings could improve how ecologists monitor and study ...