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In northern Argentina, one bird courts romance by snapping its wrists together, producing a sound scientists have puzzled ...

Some birds sing to attract a mate. Others dance or display colorful feathers. But in the moonlit forests and shrublands of ...

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DETROW: That chirping you're hearing right now is the western meadowlark. It's one of the sounds that made the Macauley Library's list of best audio recordings of 2025. The library is an online ...

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 ...

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.