Pollution can take many forms--including noise. Excess noise in the environment from sources such as traffic can have negative effects on animals that rely on sound to communicate and get information ...

It's hard to be a bird in our human-dominated world. You can barely hear yourself sing, let along hear the songs of your friends… and you can forget about hearing a predator. Noise is almost ...

Australian magpies have made themselves at home in human cities, but that doesn’t mean that urban environments are free of challenges. New research suggests that human noise pollution affects the ...

An interesting story for those like me that occasionally took a lonely drive around an airfield with a tape player sounding out distress calls, shotgun and very pistol. The bird control unit (BCU) ...

Wild black-tailed prairie dogs use alarm calls to warn one another of predators, and some grassland birds are listening in. Photo credit: Andrew Dreelin, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...