A new study explores how birdsong, traffic noise, and the sounds of nature shape the way people experience and respond to ...

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 ...

These Canada jays enjoy the view from their perch. They're indifferent about what they are called, but the birds formerly known as gray jays were renamed again last year. Credit: Bob Duchesne It’s the ...

Researcher Laurent Davin plays a replica of one of the 12,000-year-old bird bone flutes recently discovered in northern Israel. Davin et al., 2023 Scientists in Israel have discovered seven ...

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Researchers warn that noise pollution is causing chronic stress in birds and that it negatively impacts their health. The study, which was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

A tranquil, layered tapestry of avian voices unfurls across a breezy woodland setting, each call weaving seamlessly between crisp upper register chirps and soft, round lower murmurs. The blend feels ...

Oskar Sala, 91, the German composer and physicist who produced the eerie bird sound effects for Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” died of undisclosed causes Tuesday in Berlin. The bird cries were ...

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, ...

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