A new study investigates the impact of wildfire smoke on wildlife. It's one of the first studies ever on how wildfires potentially impact birds. It measured activity based on bird sounds. The study ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THIS month I’m taking advantage of a wonderful live performance that happens outside my window every day. I’m rising early to listen to the dawn chorus – the collective chirping, tweeting and singing ...

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