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.

NASA's MMS mission discovered whistler-mode chorus waves in an unexpected region, the terrestrial mid-tail neutral sheet, revealing new insights into wave-particle dynamics. These findings challenge ...

Sophisticated birdsong follows strict grammatical rules, much like human sentences. But what happens when birds can't hear ...

In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...

The Canadian albums that defined the aughts stretch from Nelly Furtado's 2000 debut to Drake's breakout mixtape in 2009.

While eastern wolves require woodlands, coyotes evolved in the open Great Plains of the western U.S. and Canada. Far more ...

It’s been a rough year for Oscar-eligible songs. First, Robbie Williams’ entry from “Better Man” was disqualified, then some ...

Watch video that will help you learn how to easily identify the birds you see and hear in the wild and become the best bird ...

Even in Los Angeles, a city dissected by highways and freeways and with busy ports and train lines, there are still places ...

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 ...

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