From insects to great apes, by way of birds and fish, animals communicate through an extraordinary variety of sounds. While ...

Birds, although they have larynges, use a different organ to sing. Called a syrinx, it's a uniquely avian feature. Now, a team that brings together physics, biology, computation and engineering finds ...

According to a new Instagram post from The Cornell Lab of Ornithology (@cornellbirds), woodpecker drumming is a form of ...

When birds and humans sing it sounds completely different, but now new research shows that the very same physical mechanisms are at play when a bird sings and a human speaks. When birds and humans ...

Wind turbines are getting so loud that some birds are being forced to sing louder just to be heard. What will the long-term ...

It may not be polite to eavesdrop, but sometimes, listening in on others’ conversations can provide valuable information. And in this way, humans are like most other species in the animal world, where ...

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: It's a bird show. I like that. I love birds. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Ray Brown's "Talkin' Birds." SIMON: Yep, Ray Brown, our friend of the finely feathered and host of "Talkin' Birds" ...

The sound of birds is everywhere but what if you can’t tell your robin from your ring-necked parrot? And when the birds listen to each other, are they picking up on the same qualities as we are? As ...

Melissa Block talks to Jonathan Hagstrum of the U.S. Geological Survey about his recent study that finds that homing pigeons use "infrasound" as a navigational cue. Now the curious case of the homing ...

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, ...