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.

There is nothing like spring. Just stand outside for a minute or two and you will hear what I mean. Birds are singing. From all corners of the prairies, forests and backyards the birds are singing ...

The ever-repeating cycles of nature have once again shifted gears. Gone are the warm, green, flower filled days of summer, replaced by the cold air, grays and browns of dormant or dead vegetation, ...

Lawmakers considered the goldfinch. Kids liked the scarlet tanager best. The whole thing took more than three decades.

Attract cardinals by learning what food cardinals like to eat. Offer seeds and berries, and grow native plants and shrubs for ...

It held together as snow built up inside the bowl, and we often saw chickadees “bathing” in the snow-bowl, much as birds in ...

A northern cardinal was struggling to hang on to a bird feeder outside a home in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, January ...

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Bob celebrates all the best music of 1975.

When these waves are converted into audio signals, scientists have found them to sound similar to birds chirping. Schematic showing occurrence of chorus waves (Chengming Liu et al., Nature (2025 ...

(NASA via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have detected cosmic waves that sound like birds chirping in an unexpected place. These bursts of plasma, called chorus waves, ripple at the same frequency as ...

When these waves are converted into audio signals, scientists have found them to sound similar to birds chirping. Scientists have hoped to better understand the phenomenon as these waves are known ...