Listening to bird songs and calls can help identify species and connect with the sounds of nature. An ornithologist provides ...

When you’re birding by ear, you use the same skills as when you’re recognizing music; listening to sounds, patterns, changes in pitch, in tone and in volume, but in nature rather than in music. You ...

Song allows the bird to "speak" better than and other family of creatures. It is the perfect medium for communicating over long distances, or when it is hard to see the singer - and the audience: for ...

All summer & autumn Albert R. Brand has been roving the hills of New Jersey and southern New York. Before dawn he would drive his truck up beside a pre-selected tree or fence, bear to it a small, ...

Winter is fading, spring is coming, and birds are singing. The distinctive songs of eastern meadowlarks roll across prairies surrounding our metropolis. The males perch on fence lines, fence poles and ...

If you are waiting out or wasting away in Pugetopolis traffic jams, here is a welcome diversion: At 8:58 a.m. each weekday, tune 88.5 on your FM radio dial and spend two minutes in the out-of-doors.

In the United States, every single national park has its distinctive symphony of natural sounds. “These natural soundscapes deserve our protection. But we are losing them and the health benefits we ...

Scientists simulated how drought conditions could change the song of Darwin’s medium ground finches by digitally modifying recordings to mimic what would happen as their beaks grew larger over ...