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

Scientists discovered that scissor-tailed nightjars create strange courtship sounds by snapping the bones in their wings ...

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

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.

Each May, nature lovers get out of bed early to experience the seasonal wonder of birds singing, as the sun rises above the horizon to take part in International Dawn Chorus Day. In Europe you may ...