A listener responded to our invitation to send recordings of backyard wildlife with audio of a spooky bird screech. An expert at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology helped solve the mystery. OK, that's not ...

Researchers have developed a way to count hidden baby barn owls from a distance by using AI and sound so they don't have to disturb their nests. Bournemouth University PhD student Kavisha Jayathunge ...

Each spring I wake to the sound of a bird purring in my neighbor’s trees. Now, I know birds don’t purr, but that’s the best word I could come up with to describe the sound. It wasn’t chirping. It didn ...

In Oregon's forests and beyond, a network of microphones is tracking some of the state's most sensitive species and feeding ...

There is a new field of ecology, called soundscape or acoustic ecology, in which researchers collect acoustic data from the wild and use this information to better understand an ecosystem. For example ...

Learn to identify owl sounds and take a moonlight hike through the woods with Grass River Natural Area staff. The Owl Calling program begins at 7 p.m. March 1 at the nature center in Bellaire. Bring ...

For researchers, endangered and threatened birds like the Northern Spotted Owl and the Marbled Murrelet can be incredibly hard to find and study in the wild. Now, new research shows that artificial ...

Researchers have developed a way to count hidden baby barn owls from a distance by using AI and sound so they don't have to disturb their nests.