Bird songs and calls may be the most restorative natural sounds, research is finding. Bertha Masuda has a new self-help guru: a dark-eyed junco bird. She watched a pair of the birds feed their young ...

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.

Forget the typical spa soundtracks, like rainstorms and crashing waves. The next time you want to relax, head to Spotify, look up key phrases like “birds in the forest,” and enjoy a cacophony of ...