Quick Take Pesticides are the nerve center threat driving hummingbirds away, thinning their insect prey and contaminating ...

Warblers in high mountain wetlands change their dawn singing with temperature, rain, wind, humidity and moonlight, showing ...

In the forests of the Sierra Nevada, the black-backed woodpecker is without parallel. The bird appears almost born of fire, ...

Meet a katydid that sounds like a bird and is as big as one too! It's even able to modulate its call to avoid attracting bats ...

The Valley Fire torched Lucky Peak in the fall of 2024. Bird researchers there are channeling their grief into study of how ...

Your kids might think that birds simply disappear for the winter. But plenty of species don’t actually migrate south during the cold months; others might be making your neighborhood their winter home.

The Bay Area is a permanent or temporary home for 250 different species of resident and migratory birds. Noise can affect ...

Abstract: This paper investigates acoustic modeling for recognition of bird species from audio field recordings. First, the acoustic scene is decomposed into isolated segments, corresponding to ...

Even so, nature resonates with distinct sounds during the cold season. Winter, in fact, is a good time to keep your ears ...

Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets ...

A new paper from Purdue’s Bryan Pijanowski and colleagues looks at all the ways sound influences human, animal and environmental health It’s 2 a.m. and you’re woken by a motorcycle revving its engine ...

Abstract: By automatically detecting and classifying bird sounds, relevant researchers can learn ecological information about bird distribution, migration patterns, and habitat preferences. This paper ...