The wilderness provides some interesting sounds. At night, these sounds take on stranger dimensions: cooing, cawing, chimp-like bellowing, and cackling, all emerging from the foliage without providing ...

Jerusalem Crawley grew up in Detroit, where he didn’t have much contact with nature. “I was a typical city kid and birds were the last thing on my mind,” said Crawley, now 22, who is visually impaired ...

In some of the, well, less stressful corners of social media, you can hear all kinds of bird calls, people sharing recordings of birds that they took with their phones. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

Birds make some very unique sounds, and the screaming Piha is no exception. The San Diego Zoo shared a video on Wednesday, June 19th of what it sounds like, and you've got to hear it to believe. It's ...

A bird call has gone viral and taken people who grew up in the 2000s right back to their childhoods. I remember the same sound waking me up as a kid and soundtracking my teenage years. I asked an ...

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.

I grew up in northeast Ohio in the 1970s, which meant, as a duck hunter , I grew up hearing duck sounds from mallards and black ducks, both of which quack. My father and I didn’t attempt to call wood ...

Bird Sounds – Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) Posted: 24 August 2025 | Last updated: 26 August 2025 Listen to the spring 'laughing' call of the green woodpecker. Watch as a male sits in a tree and ...