According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a male Mockingbird may learn up to 200 songs in its lifetime. Like the ...

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.

When you think of birds imitating sounds, parrots and starlings might come to mind. They're famous for copying human speech, ...

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 ...

I was recently creeping through a clearing of downed trees in a wooded Brooklyn park with my iPhone in hand. Birds were singing everywhere, but through the din, I was recording a peculiar song: It was ...

Researchers conducted a global study of the factors that influence bird sounds, using more than 100,000 audio recordings from around the world. Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a ...

When it comes to copying R2-D2, the best bet seems to be small birds with small brains .

European starlings just beat parrots at their own game – copying complex sounds. In a new study by researchers in Amsterdam ...

Zebra finches don’t just mimic sounds—they understand them, revealing surprising insights into animal communication and ...