The song of the Swainson’s thrush defies description — three low notes followed by an upward burble in a cautionary key, like a sound you might hear in space, as if R2D2 sang a piece by Mozart. While ...

From familiar garden visitors to countryside characters you’ll hear long before you see, here are eight of the noisiest birds in the UK.

Movie soundtracks often include the song of the hermit thrush to establish a mood of isolation or an outdoorsy setting. Their song has an ethereal reedy quality and lazily rises or falls, each series ...

It might sound like all chirps to you, but birds convey different messages, even across species. Language has long been considered the exclusive provenance of humans. But in the animal kingdom, birds, ...

I was recently creeping through a clearing of downed trees in a wooded Brooklyn park with my iPhone in hand. Birds were singing everywhere, but through the din, I was recording a peculiar song: It was ...

No finches yet and only a single thrush, but tuning into January’s sounds has revealed that nature is beginning to stir ...