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.

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 ...

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Birds use chirps, trills, and warbles to attract mates, alert others of predators, and defend their territory. But whenever they sing, they're indicating that all is well in the world. And when we ...

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Birds have been on my brain for some time, for several reasons. Some months ago, my wife Chryselle introduced me to the Merlin Bird app available for free on the phone. It “offers quick identification ...

DETROW: That chirping you're hearing right now is the western meadowlark. It's one of the sounds that made the Macauley Library's list of best audio recordings of 2025. The library is an online ...