In a bizarre yet intriguing experiment, musician and science enthusiast Benn Jordan has explored whether birds could act as a living storage medium. The bird in question, a young starling, had been ...

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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.

After decades of mystery, scientists have finally proven that Europe’s largest bat, the greater noctule, hunts and eats small songbirds mid-air—more than a kilometer above ground. Using tiny ...

With All Hallows Eve rapidly approaching, I thought it was high time to explore the spookier side of birds. Specifically, ...

It’s been a year since the total solar eclipse moved through many parts of the U.S. on April 8, 2024, and a recent preliminary report shared some new findings of how the event affected wildlife. Last ...

Scientists brought to life the silent, sleeping songs of two great kiskadees. Andrej Chudý via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED While birds are fast asleep, their brains remain active, firing off ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s been a big week for bird migration, and Central Texas has been part of it. More than a billion birds were recorded as being on the move Wednesday night as they fly south for the ...