If you were old enough to buy CDs in the ’90s, you may remember listening stations at superstores that featured music by some of nature’s noisiest creatures: birds. These CDs blended classical music ...

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 ...

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.

I love listening to birds singing and surely miss it when they're not telling us what they're thinking and feeling. I've come to believe that listening to birdsong and other sounds of nature had a ...

Researchers conducted a global study of the factors that influence bird sounds, using more than 100,000 audio recordings from around the world. Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a ...

Unique trills, calls, chirps, gurgling, and whistles are crucial components in nature's soundscapes. (Pictured: Male Indigo Bunting) Dawn Scranton via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 "It was a ...

Listen to the spring 'laughing' call of the green woodpecker. Watch as a male sits in a tree and sings. This is a nature documentary about wildlife from the Czech Republic in Central Europe. Bird song ...

🎶🍃 Let your mind rest with calming bird songs from Europe’s forests, fields, and wetlands. This peaceful soundscape features robins, blackbirds, finches, wrens, warblers, and more — recorded in ...