Birds use loud calls to communicate, defend territory, and attract mates. From the Screaming Piha to the White Bellbird, nature shows how astonishingly loud birds can be.

The Loon Program Coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Mitchell performs loon monitoring and ...

Maybe you just have to be from Minnesota to really get it. Plenty of soccer teams have a pregame ritual. A cherished old pop song here. A boom-boom clap there. Minnesota United, though, kick off with ...

Step into a conversation north of the border, and you’ll quickly notice that words don’t always mean the same thing as t ...

Lake Guntersville State Park in Guntersville, Alabama is the answer to your nature-deprived prayers. Nestled in the northeastern corner of Alabama, this 6,000-acre paradise offers the kind of views ...

The findings of a new study about communication between birds also offer key insights into the origins of language.

Birds separated by vast geographic distances and millions of years of evolution share a remarkably similar learned vocal ...

Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might ...

When you’re birding by ear, you use the same skills as when you’re recognizing music; listening to sounds, patterns, changes in pitch, in tone and in volume, but in nature rather than in music. You ...

Brum and his colleagues observed the birds in Yorkshire Dales National Park in northwest England. They used a telescope or ...

40 or so years after the genre’s creation, the many subgenres of house — piano, gospel, acid, progressive, deep, future, Afro, etc. — now each form worlds unto themselves, but the twin hearts of house ...