The red-winged blackbird’s distinctive “conk-la-ree!” is the song of spring in Michigan. Male red-winged blackbirds are among the earliest migratory bird species to arrive in Michigan each spring, ...

New Zealand conservationists have been fighting for years to keep the kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, from disappearing, with intensive conservation efforts.

When we hear certain sounds, our brains often pair them with specific shapes. For example, most people will associate a sharp-sounding word with a jagged, pointed shape, while a soft, rolling word is ...

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba ...

As another Great Backyard Bird Count gets underway, Lounge goes birdwatching, a hobby that's seen a surge in the recent past ...

THE sound of birdsong and a wolf's howl couldn't be more different – but what if that isn't always the case? Can a bird make more terrifying sounds than just chirps and actually let out a wolf's howl?

Stephen Pound on using rubber serpents to deal with greedy, ring-necked parakeets. Plus letters from Dr Andrew Bodey and Nigel Walker The curse of the ring-necked parakeets so vividly described in ...

In a study conducted at the University of Helsinki, AI was trained to classify bird sounds with increasing accuracy. The results of the study have been used, among others, in the ‘Muuttolintujen kevät ...

The unfamiliar monk parakeets got to know each other slowly before moving on to behaviors like preening, pictured here. Claire O'Connell Monk parakeets are highly social birds. These bright green ...

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