A baby's babbling may sound like nonsense, but it's actually an extended act of trial-and-error learning. As babies produce different sounds, their brains note which attempts succeed and which ones ...

The houses are given out to conservation-minded individuals to place on the landscape to enhance nesting capabilities.

The bumpy-faced waterfowl can be found across the United States, but in almost all cases the birds are domestic versions of the wild ducks. Here's how to know which is which.

The White Bird Volunteer Fire Department will host its annual Fireman’s Ball on Saturday, Feb. 14, at the IOOF Rebekahs Hall ...

After a recent successful bow hunt, JH came out of the woods before daylight vanished. He had his deer loaded and he just sat ...

You might spot some of these woodpeckers stashing acorns in your garden, while others can be identified by their beautiful ...

Sometimes I catch myself classifying birds into two categories: fancy and regular. Shame on me. This is a bad attitude, because all birds are gorgeous little creatures. But I fear, after all these ...

Abstract: Bird call classification - both manual and automatic - commonly relies on spectrograms, visual time-frequency representations of the signal power distribution of the audio signal. These ...

Birds call and sing to communicate with potential mates or rivals within their own species, but don't automatically understand the vocalisations of others. However, sometimes there's a good reason to ...

The white bellbird, native to the Amazon rain forest, has the loudest recorded call of any bird: 125 decibels, or roughly as loud as a rock concert. It uses this call not for long-distance ...

Considered as some of the most beautiful noises in the natural world, bird song is thought to boost our mental wellbeing – and with the rise in bird call ID apps, we're more obsessed with it than ever ...