Nearly every time I take a walk in my neighborhood or in the woods in early fall, I hear what for me has become an iconic sound of the season — squawking blue jays. I even hear one now from somewhere ...

Birds understand many sounds around them, from mates to alarms, and this hidden skill may hint at how human language first ...

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 ...

The third volume of the massive, ambitious, and unique project, For the Birds — in which hundreds of artists created new recordings inspired by birdsongs — has arrived today, July 29, with music from ...

All air-breathing vertebrates have a larynx—a structure of muscles and folds that protects the trachea and, in many animals, vibrates and modulates to produce a stunning array of sounds. But birds, ...